Hello,

(Suse 8.1, 2.4Ghz system, 1Gig Ram - no extra applications installed at this time)

In playing around with directory commands, as root, I came across :

>Snip

linux:/home/niallc/Desktop/Trash # dir
total 6005
drwx------ 2 niallc users 160 2002-01-02 10:52 .
drwx------ 3 niallc users 456 2002-01-02 10:52 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 niallc users 1037 2003-06-18 04:28 .directory
-rw-r--r-- 1 niallc users 3583167 2002-01-02 10:10 gaim-0.64-1.src.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 niallc users 2555742 2002-01-02 10:13 gaim-0.64.tar.gz.par t

>Snip

Questions:

- I recognize the last two entries. What are the top three entires, and why only visible as root?

- what does the "t" stand for?


Thanks in advance...still trying to learn my way around!

Niall.

. is your current directory
.. is the parent directory (up one level)
.directory is a hidden directory
the t.... erm.. a remnant from some download program? i'm guessing it is "part" as in a partial download??

...or someone saved it with a space?
Use "ls -alQ" to see all and with quoted names.

OK,

but when I deleted all contents and ran dir again, I got:

total 4
drwx------ 2 niallc users 80 2002-01-02 13:49 .
drwx------ 3 niallc users 456 2002-01-02 10:52 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 niallc users 1037 2003-06-18 04:28 .directory


Again, my question is, if everything is deleted, then what am I looking at? There's no visible directories?

I guess what I want to know, are these folders that Suse inserts by default? Are they used by any application?

TIA

Niall.

'.' and '..' are in every folder (try typing 'ls -a' in any folder). They simply refer to the folder itself and the folder above it. Anything with a '.' and then something after it refers to a hidden directory. I don't believe these are automatically deleted along with the visible contents of the folder, but I'm sure someone else can clear that up.

-JMagi