From: Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org>
To: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] UNIX Backslash History
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 10:36:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191028173539.GA129556@alice> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191027204628.7EFFE156E80B@mail.bitblocks.com>
Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> once said:
> >dir1>dir2>file1 -- absolute: /dir1/di2/file1
> file1 -- relative: if >dir1>dir2 is the working dir
> <file2 -- relative: ../file2 == >dir1>file2
> <dir3>file4 -- ../dir3/file3
> <<dir4>file5 -- ../../dir4/file5 == >dir4>file5
>
> << is more compact thant ../.. and I like the vertical symmetry of < and >!
"Getting Less Than Right" would have been an
interesting title. ;)
Unix uses dot for the current directory. Was
there any notation for this in Multics?
Anthony
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-28 17:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-27 20:31 Doug McIlroy
2019-10-27 20:42 ` Richard Salz
2019-10-27 20:49 ` Charles Anthony
2019-10-27 23:01 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-10-28 1:11 ` Steve Nickolas
2019-10-28 12:00 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-10-28 13:44 ` Clem Cole
2019-10-28 15:08 ` Steve Nickolas
2019-10-28 18:47 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-28 20:43 ` Paul Winalski
2019-10-27 20:46 ` Bakul Shah
2019-10-28 17:36 ` Anthony Martin [this message]
2019-10-28 18:17 ` Charles Anthony
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2019-10-28 15:51 Noel Chiappa
2019-10-27 21:31 Noel Chiappa
2019-10-27 21:51 ` Charles Anthony
2019-10-26 9:39 Caipenghui
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