ls -d

[the bassinvader]

Hi everybody.

I've been messing with options for ls and started using the -d option ( how very useful it is too) but if i use it as a single option on a directory ie....

ls -d /my directory

i'll get a dot (.) displayed and thats all. So i i guess this is the config file from within the directory but why does it give me this? And what exactly is in the . and .. directories anyway?

[Zelmo]

A single dot is an alias for the current directory; two dots represent the parent directory.

Try just "ls ." and see how the output compares to "ls" or even "ls $PWD".

[flipjargendy]

You can also do 'cd ..' and it will go one directory up. Pretty useful.