Enter directory with name "."

RattleSn@ke · 09-29-2008, 06:20 AM

Hi there,

We have some strange directories on a server, see listing below:
root: /var/tmp # ls -lash
total 2078
2 drwxrwxrwt 14 root wheel 2.0K Sep 29 12:27 .
2 drwxr-xr-x 3 1018 wheel 512B Dec 6 2006 .
2 drwxr-xr-x 29 root wheel 512B Aug 3 2007 ..

As you see, there is a directory named ".", but I can't figure out how to enter this directory. And ofcourse I don't mean the single-dot dir that means 'current directory'!

Thanks!
Onno.

bkcreddy17 · 09-29-2008, 06:43 AM

Code:

2 drwxrwxrwt 14 root wheel 2.0K Sep 29 12:27 .

this is a soft link create to

Code:

2 drwxr-xr-x 3 1018 wheel 512B Dec 6 2006 .

using

Code:

#ln -s ./

which is a current directory.
you can remove the soft link by

Code:

#rmdir ./ 
or 
#rm -rf ./