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Re: When specifying path to file - confused about ./ and ~/

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On 03/27/2017 07:25 AM, David wrote:
> On 27 March 2017 at 22:39, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
>>> On 03/27/2017 01:14 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>  *Please avoid trying to briefly explain.*
>>  *_Please refer me to a good web page._
>
> http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/unix1.html
> http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/unix2.html
>
> Sections 1.4, 1.6 part 2, and 2.1 demonstrate use of '.' and '~' to
> represent directory names.
>
> To the best of my knowledge, '.' is intrinsic to the filesystem
> design, whereas expansion of '~' is handled by your shell.
> I hope someone else here will correct or elaborate that statement if necessary.
>
>

Thank you, the first reference was the key.
I also is a useful illustration of why my original post said:
"
     Please avoid trying to briefly explain.
     Please refer me to a good web page.
"
The author of that page made only *3* assumptions:
    1. that the reader was interested.
    2. that the reader's literacy level was adequate.
    3. that the author knew he knew *nothing* about the reader's
       background.

It wasn't so much the author's descriptions, but his use of a 
progressive series of illustrative examples.

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When specifying path to file - confused about ./ and ~/ Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-03-27 13:20 +0200
  Re: When specifying path to file - confused about ./ and ~/ Peter Ludikovsky <peter@ludikovsky.name> - 2017-03-27 13:30 +0200
    Re: When specifying path to file - confused about ./ and ~/ Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-03-27 13:50 +0200
      Re: When specifying path to file - confused about ./ and ~/ David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2017-03-27 14:30 +0200
        Re: When specifying path to file - confused about ./ and ~/ <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-03-27 14:50 +0200
          Re: When specifying path to file - confused about ./ and ~/ Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-03-27 16:30 +0200
            Re: When specifying path to file - confused about ./ and ~/ <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-03-27 16:40 +0200
              Re: When specifying path to file - confused about ./ and ~/ Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-03-27 17:50 +0200
                Re: When specifying path to file - confused about ./ and ~/ <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-03-27 21:40 +0200
          Chaos of confusion RESOLVED - was [Re: When specifying path to file -  confused about ./ and ~/] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-04-03 14:50 +0200
        Re: When specifying path to file - confused about ./ and ~/ Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-03-27 16:00 +0200
      Re: When specifying path to file - confused about ./ and ~/ Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-27 21:30 +0200
        Re: When specifying path to file - confused about ./ and ~/ Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-03-27 22:00 +0200
          Re: When specifying path to file - confused about ./ and ~/ Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-27 23:20 +0200
          Re: When specifying path to file - confused about ./ and ~/ kAt <giathnygeia@openmailbox.org> - 2017-03-28 00:10 +0200
            Re: When specifying path to file - confused about ./ and ~/ Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-03-28 00:30 +0200
            Re: When specifying path to file - confused about ./ and ~/ Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2017-03-28 02:00 +0200
            Re: When specifying path to file - confused about ./ and ~/ David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-03-28 03:20 +0200
            Re: When specifying path to file - confused about ./ and ~/ songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2017-03-28 19:20 +0200
              Re: When specifying path to file - confused about ./ and ~/ Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-28 19:30 +0200
  Re: When specifying path to file - confused about ./ and ~/ The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2017-03-27 14:40 +0200
    Re: When specifying path to file - confused about ./ and ~/ Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2017-03-27 15:30 +0200
      Re: When specifying path to file - confused about ./ and ~/ David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-03-27 17:00 +0200
      Re: When specifying path to file - confused about ./ and ~/ Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-03-27 17:10 +0200
    Re: When specifying path to file - confused about ./ and ~/ Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-03-27 16:40 +0200
      Re: When specifying path to file - confused about ./ and ~/ Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2017-03-27 17:10 +0200

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