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What does ../ mean in Linux/Unix paths? I've seen that it means as 'up a directory' but I couldn't get to understand it fully.
Each directory has two entries in it at the start, with names . (a link to itself) and .. (a link to its parent directory). The exception, of course, is the root directory, where the .. directory also refers to the root directory.
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when I exit my vim, I accidentally typed wq~, and it created my home directory in my other linux directory which I am working on, anyway to remove it?
Quote it
rm '~'
You can also rename it to the name you want:
mv '~' correctname
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I want to know the purpose of each folder in the root directory of linux/mac, like /var, /etc, /usr, /opt, etc. Can anybody shed some light?
Read the File Hierarchy Standard (at least for Linux). See also this and the Linux standard base.
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On Linux systems there are some special paths like /etc/cron.d/, /etc/apt/sources.list.d/. That are the paths where you can place your own custom configs in separate files.
My question is — what does letter d mean?
directory :) Since there can possibly be a /etc/cron file as well. It is the same for /etc/modprobe.d/
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I have downloaded a large file about 2gigs from remote server but by mistake I gave it name . (dot).
How can I rename it using linux commands ?
I don't think you really have named it .. Or at least, you cannot have done so successfully.
The name . is reserved for the current directory. So either it has been given another name implicitly, or it has been removed/discarded.
Try
find -size +1536M -ls
to find if there is any file with this size, and if so, verify if it can be the file you look for.
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The problem is the following - I`ve created a symbolic link to a folder /home/user1/folder1 in /home/user2/. When user2 follows this link, he comes to the /home/user1/folder1, but when he goes up folder he comes to /home/user1/ not /home/user2/. Is it possible to change this behavior?
Thanks. Solved by mount --bind