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Neither are actually files. They are references to directories, the current one and the parent directory, respectively. They can be used in file copy and move operations in place of explicitly printing the directory names. For instance:
mv ./* ..
would move all files from the child directory into it's parent.
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The Unix file contains which kinds of fields?
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What is the folder sharing mechanism most commonly used by UNIX computers?
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