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Isn't Slashdot a reference to the current directory in Linux?
by nkohari 3y ago
Isn't Slashdot a reference to the current directory in Linux?
- comprev 3y agoIt could be but the version I remembered was trying to tell someone the website over the phone. Perhaps someone on HN has a more reliable source than my brain?
- RoyGBivCap 3y agoHow do you create the name for a website by trying to tell someone how to get to it over the phone? Doesn't the DNS entry have to exist first?
- comprev 3y ago"Hey check out this website I discovered - it's called Slashdot" "It's called what!?" "Slashdot" "How do you spell that?" "http://slashdot.org http://slashdot.org" "Hang on, what? How many slashes and dots?"
- RoyGBivCap 3y agoSo the conversation of what might happen occurred before the site was created?
- comprev 3y agoSee the FAQ for an official answer - https://slashdot.org/faq https://slashdot.org/faq I probably got the telephone part mixed up but was right about being confusing to read aloud. Can’t get a better source that /. itself!
- RoyGBivCap 3y agoI have a 6 digit /. id and somehow never knew this. Thanks!
- pr0zac 3y agoI feel like no, trying it out (though on my Mac using zsh and not a 25 year old Linux box) the slash being first makes it reference the root directory.
- comprev 3y agoyes, the correct syntax would be: ./ not /.
- Sai_ 3y agoDot is the current directory. With ~, ~/. could mean your home directory if your shell recognises ~ as $HOME. Don’t think /. aka slashdot has any intrinsic meaning in Linux.