at same directory, is it cannot have same name text file and folder name?
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at same directory, is it cannot have same name text file and folder name?
Hi, i have confuse with this: i am in folder /test inside there i have make a directory #mkdir folder1 , than inside /test have a directory name "folder1", now i want to create a text file in same location /test #vim folder1 ,but cannot create this text file? is it folder name and text file or what file also cannot have a same name?
i am in /mnt/hda , now nothing is mount to this directory, i have create a file in this directory, but now i just mount the harddisk partition to this directory mount -t ext3 /dev/hdd1 /mnt/hda than the directory /mnt/hda files which i create before i mount the /dev/hdd1 cannot view after i mount /dev/hdd1?
at same directory, is it cannot have same name text file and folder name?
That's right.
Code:
# mkdir folder
# vim folder
~
"folder" is a directory
# touch foo
# mkdir foo
mkdir: cannot create directory `foo': File exists
When you think about it, this behavior is quite reasonable. A directory is a file too... how can you have two files with the same name? How will the computer tell them apart?
Note - you should not be creating user-access directories off root like /text. Create them in your home directory (~/text) or off /usr/share ... the directories are organized that way for a reason. ~/documents is equivalent to My Documents... see?
You may have a folder and a file in the folder with the same name.
I agree, but that's not what he's asking and it is not what I said.
Quote:
i am in folder /test [1] inside there i have make a directory [2] #mkdir folder1 , than inside /test have a directory name [3] "folder1", now i want to create a text file [4] in same location /test #vim folder1 ,but [5] cannot create this text file?
... see?
# pwd ...[1]
/test
# mkdir folder1 ...[2]
# ls ...[3]
folder1
# vim folder1 ...[4]
~
"folder1" is a directory ...[5]
Last edited by Simon Bridge; 11-10-2007 at 08:14 AM.
i am in /mnt/hda , now nothing is mount to this directory, i have create a file in this directory, but now i just mount the harddisk partition to this directory mount -t ext3 /dev/hdd1 /mnt/hda than the directory /mnt/hda files which i create before i mount the /dev/hdd1 cannot view after i mount /dev/hdd1?
# pwd
/mnt/hda
# touch dummy
# ls
dummy
# mount -t ext3 /dev/hdd1 /mnt/hda
# ls
documents music archive (or whatever is in there, but not dummy)
# umount /mnt/hda
# ls
dummy
This too is the correct behavior. It hasn't overwritten "dummy", all it means is that /mnt/hda is now about a different drive.
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at same directory, is it cannot have same name text file and folder name?
