What is different `./` and `.\`?

Asked Jun 20 '18 at 08:22

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I tried to find the answer of it. but searching for difference ./ and .\ did result nothing

Instead of answering on this question, it'd be also helpful that you let me know how to search for this subject

while using Command Prompt I found that file locations sometimes can be written from ./
- ex) mspaint ./Apple.png
and the locations that use ./ can be replaced by .\
- ex) results of using mspaint ./Apple.png and mspaint .\Apple.png are the same
in inverse case, it cannot
- ex) .\mspaint.exe → it works well
- ex) ./mspaint.exe → error with '.' is not recognized as an internal ... batch file

edited Jun 20 '18 at 08:33

Uwe Keim

asked Jun 20 '18 at 08:22

Ross Bae

In DOS and Microsoft Windows, the path separator character is \; you talk about `C:\WINDOWS\System32\ftp.exe`. However, in most cases the OS also recognizes `/`. [In DOS and Windows, `/` is used for command-line switches. In Unix/Linux, `/` is the path separator character.] Knowing this, you realize that .\ is simply the current directory (since that is what a single period means -- `..` is the parent directory). – Andreas Rejbrand Jun 20 '18 at 10:56
thank you I got understood of this subject ! – Ross Bae Jun 21 '18 at 00:37

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