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Re: / operator question

by nithins (Acolyte)

on Dec 14, 2012 at 06:24 UTC ( #1008780=note: print w/ replies, xml )

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1)"/" is a root directory. 2) Suppose u lave a directory structure /home/aaa/noexit.if ur script is in the "aaa" directory and you wanted to acess "noexit" directory then "/noexit" simply means " aaa/noexit".

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Re^2: / operator question by muba (Curate) on Dec 14, 2012 at 06:49 UTC
"/noexit" simply means " aaa/noexit". No it doesn't. Regardless of where your script lives, that still isn't the same as the cwd. And even if it were, "/noexit" is an absolute path so it still doesn't matter where the script lives or what the cwd is, unless the process is chrooted of course. The right answer was given by choroba.	[reply]
Re^3: / operator question by Jenda (Monsignor) on Dec 14, 2012 at 13:09 UTC
Except for a little twist on Windows. There it's not "absolutely absolute" and it means "the file or directory named 'noexit' in the root directory of the currently selected volume". Jenda Enoch was right! Enjoy the last years of Rome.	[reply]
Re^4: / operator question by ikegami (Pope) on Dec 16, 2012 at 14:06 UTC
It may not have an absolute root, but Windows does have absolute paths. They are of the form `d:\...` [download] or `\\...` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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