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  2. Path (computing) - Wikipedia

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    At that moment, the relative path for the desired directory can be represented as: ./bobapples or for short: bobapples and the absolute path for the directory as: /users/mark/bobapples Given bobapples as the relative path for the directory wanted, the following may be typed at the command prompt to change the current working directory to bobapples:

  3. Working directory - Wikipedia

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    In most computer file systems, every directory has an entry (usually named ".") which points to the directory itself.In most DOS and UNIX command shells, as well as in the Microsoft Windows command line interpreters cmd.exe and Windows PowerShell, the working directory can be changed by using the CD or CHDIR commands.

  4. NTFS links - Wikipedia

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    Symbolic links are reparse points which operate similarly to Junction Points, or symbolic links in Unix or Linux, and accept relative paths and paths to files as well as directories. Support for directory and UNC paths were added in NTFS 3.1. NTFS volume mount points; All NTFS links are intended to be transparent to applications.

  5. forfiles - Wikipedia

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    The directory (folder) to search for files in. The default is the current directory. UNC paths (\\machine\share) are not accepted. /M searchmask A glob pattern (wildcard search). Only files whose filename matches the pattern are selected. The file extension is included in the filename; the path (folder name) is not.

  6. mkdir - Wikipedia

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    where name_of_directory is the name of the directory one wants to create. When typed as above (i.e. normal usage), the new directory would be created within the current directory. On Unix and Windows (with Command extensions enabled, [15] the default [16]), multiple directories can be specified, and mkdir will try to create all of them.

  7. Hierarchical file system - Wikipedia

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    Files are searched relative to the working directory, rather than from the root directory. At logon, the user's working directory is set to their home directory; it can be set afterwards by using a command. [8] A relative path represents the directory nodes visited from the working directory to the file, rather than from the root directory to ...

  8. Symbolic link - Wikipedia

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    A symbolic link contains a text string that is automatically interpreted and followed by the operating system as a path to another file or directory. This other file or directory is called the "target". The symbolic link is a second file that exists independently of its target. If a symbolic link is deleted, its target remains unaffected.

  9. Filename - Wikipedia

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    In some systems, a filename reference that does not include the complete directory path defaults to the current working directory. This is a relative reference. One advantage of using a relative reference in program configuration files or scripts is that different instances of the script or program can use different files.