Where did . come from
Granted, you need something to signify that a file is a dir (remember, in linux everything is a file), and what the parent dir is. I'm assuming that the kernel folks decided the name, or at least have some idea about it.
I'm not objecting, it's fine, I just want to know this history behind the decision to use . instead of say $ or %.
Thanks, David
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Quoted 6 lines · On 3/23/2016 9:29 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Granted, you need something to signify that a file is a dir (remember, in linux everything is a file), and what the parent dir is. I'm assuming that the kernel folks decided the name, or at least have some idea about it.
I'm not objecting, it's fine, I just want to know this history behind the decision to use . instead of say $ or %.
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No, I'm not kidding. It dates back to the UNIX systems of the 1970's.
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Thanks, David
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