Timeline for What are "." and ".." in a directory?
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| Mar 31, 2019 at 13:18 | comment | added | preciousbetine | Nice answer . Works for me. | |
| Aug 25, 2013 at 18:28 | comment | added | Daniel Beck♦ |
cd ... works for me on Windows 98's command. Windows XP doesn't seem to support it though.
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| Aug 25, 2013 at 18:24 | comment | added | Keltari | "..." is not valid. just "." and ".." | |
| Aug 25, 2013 at 18:24 | comment | added | kinokijuf | Does not work for me on NT 3.51 either | |
| May 26, 2010 at 14:59 | comment | added | Simon P Stevens | @salmonmoose: Doesn't work for me on XP either. | |
| May 26, 2010 at 14:45 | comment | added | AdamV | nor me on Windows 7 64 bit RTM. Sounds like a myth to me. what's wrong with ..\.. anyway? | |
| May 26, 2010 at 14:20 | history | edited | Stephen Jennings | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Sep 13, 2009 at 0:21 | comment | added | Kevin Panko | 3 dots does not work for me, using Vista | |
| Sep 9, 2009 at 3:57 | comment | added | salmonmoose | It's little known, but the Windows command line extends this further. . = this directory .. = parent directory ... = parent's parent directory 3 dots is sometimes useful, much more than that and it's just too hard to deal with. | |
| Sep 9, 2009 at 3:13 | history | edited | user1931 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Sep 8, 2009 at 1:08 | history | answered | user1931 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
