Is it possible to delete (.) and (..) directories from a directory ?
Issue
- Is it possible to delete (.) and (..) directories from a directory ?
[root@localhost home]# ls -altr
total 12
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4096 Dec 2 11:38 . <---- here (directory)
drwxr-xr-x. 25 root root 4096 Feb 16 22:03 .. <---- here (directory)
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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