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  2. File URI scheme - Wikipedia

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    file://host/path. where host is the fully qualified domain name of the system on which the path is accessible, and path is a hierarchical directory path of the form directory/directory/.../name. If host is omitted, it is taken to be "localhost", the machine from which the URL is being interpreted.

  3. Directory (computing) - Wikipedia

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    In computing, a directory is a file system cataloging structure which contains references to other computer files, and possibly other directories. On many computers, directories are known as folders , or drawers , [ 1 ] analogous to a workbench or the traditional office filing cabinet .

  4. 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.

  5. Directory structure - Wikipedia

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    A copy of all Windows components, as well as all Windows updates and service packs is stored in this folder. Starting with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows automatically scavenges this folder to keep its size in check. For security reasons and to avoid the DLL Hell issue, Windows enforces very stringent requirements on how the ...

  6. NTFS links - Wikipedia

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    As in such file systems, an NTFS hard link cannot point to a directory. A typical new file creation event on an NTFS volume, then, simply involves NTFS allocating and creating one new MFT record, for storing the new file entity's file metadata—including, about any of the data clusters assigned to the file, and the file's data streams; one MFT ...

  7. Hard link - Wikipedia

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    In computing, a hard link is a directory entry (in a directory-based file system) that associates a name with a file.Thus, each file must have at least one hard link. Creating additional hard links for a file makes the contents of that file accessible via additional paths (i.e., via different names or in different directori

  8. cd (command) - Wikipedia

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    A directory is a logical section of a file system used to hold files. Directories may also contain other directories. The cd command can be used to change into a subdirectory, move back into the parent directory, move all the way back to the root directory or move to any given directory.

  9. help (command) - Wikipedia

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    The end of the HELP command output from RT-11SJ displayed on a VT100. The BusyBox HELP command. In computing, help is a command in various command line shells such as COMMAND.COM, cmd.exe, Bash, qshell, 4DOS/4NT, Windows PowerShell, Singularity shell, Python, MATLAB [1] and GNU Octave. [2]