[TUHS] V7 ls and dot files?

Rob Pike robpike at gmail.com
Tue Apr 29 11:21:15 AEST 2025


So now I see that v1 had hierarchical path names. I thought that came in
v2. I stand corrected.

-rob


On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM Douglas McIlroy <
douglas.mcilroy at dartmouth.edu> wrote:

> http://xahlee.info/UnixResource_dir/writ/unix_origin_of_dot_filename.html
> says
>
> > I'm not sure but I believe .. went in during the Version 2 rewrite
>
> .. was there from the beginning. The v1 man page directory(v) says,
>
> > By convention, the first two entries in each directory are for "." and
> "..".
>
> Doug
>
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