Path difference between ../ and ./

Could anyone explain the difference between ../ and ./ please.

../system
./system

My understanding is that ../ is the root directory.

But I don't know what ./means.

7 Answers

./ means the current directory

../ means the parent of the current directory, not the root directory

/ is the root directory

myfile.text is in the current directory, as is ./myfile.text

../myfile.text is one level above you and /myfile.text lives in your root directory.

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. Current Directoy
.. Parent Directory

./system means, a directory/file called system in the current directory.

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The . and .. are relative directories to your current location.

The . is the current directory. eg "this". The .. is the previous directory. eg "this.parent".

• . is the current directory
• .. is the parent directory of the current directory

... which means:

• ./system is the subdirectory or file called "system" of the current directory
• ../system is the subdirectory or file called "system" of the parent directory, which makes it a sibling of the current directory.

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../ is the directory above this one

./ is the current directory

./ means the current directory.

I think ,./ and . are the same, they mean current directory. While ../ means first layer parent directory.

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