is there any thing like javac -d .../apple Ankur.java

[Ankur kothari]

i mean does .../ mean anything ?bi have tried everything but couldnt find the answer....but i think i have seen it somewhere

[Deepak Bala]

-d is the flag that mentions the target directory into which class files go. The ../apple means "go to the parent directory and then go into the apple folder and put the class files there".

[Ankur kothari]

hey i was asking about 3 dotes and not 2 dotes, by the way 2 dotes means go back one directory ....not necessarily the parent directory

and then into the apple directory

[Ankit Garg]

Ankur kothari wrote:by the way 2 dots means go back one directory ....not necessarily the parent directory

Can you show an example where "back one directory" is not the parent directory (unless the current directory is the top of a partition where ../ won't have any effect)...

[Ankur kothari]

what if my java file was in c:\javaankur\a\kothari and i wanted to put the class file in ankur directory which is inside the a directory

[Ankur kothari]

if you want to go the ankur directory(if present inside the parent directory(c:\)) we could use
javac -d /ankur Ankur.java

. refers to the current directory

i hope i am right and not being stubborn

[Ankit Garg]

Ankur, I'm unable to understand your example. If you use ./ankur, that means ankur directory in current directory not parent directory. Basically parent directory is the directory which contains the current directory, here current directory is the directory where the shell/command prompt is. If shell/prompt is in the directory "a", then the parent directory is "javaankur" directory not the directory "a" itself.

[Edit: Ankur edited his post and changed a few things so the above stuff doesn't makes any sense]

if you want to go the ankur directory(if present inside the parent directory(c:\)) we could use
javac -d /ankur Ankur.java

. refers to the current directory

Where is the . in the command??

[Ankur kothari]

in c:\javaankur\a\kothari isnt my current directory kothari and parent directory a? if my java file was in kothari dir then .. will make me go to a dir....

i think am getting confused with parent word...parent means the dir will be in if we do ..

then Deepak was right

[Ankur kothari]

javac -d ./ankur Ankur.java

in this . refers to the current directory

this is what i meant

and i didnt change anything to look right or senseless

my actual question was is there thing like

javac -d .../ankur Ankur.java

dont mind the dir structure.....can we use "..." anywhere? is it used anywherE?

[Ankit Garg]

Ankur kothari wrote:and i didnt change anything to look right or senseless

I was talking about the 6th post of this thread. Originally you wrote

if you want to go the ankur directory(if present inside the parent directory a) we could use
javac -d ./ankur Ankur.java

. refers to the current directory

i hope i am right and not being stubborn

And then you changed it to

if you want to go the ankur directory(if present inside the parent directory(c:\)) we could use
javac -d /ankur Ankur.java

. refers to the current directory

i hope i am right and not being stubborn

[Ankur kothari]

dude just tell me if javac -d .../ankur Ankur.java can be used in any condition?

[Sonali Sehgal]

Hi Ankur,

javac -d .../ankur Ankur.java
This command of .../ does not mean anything

It would itself on the command prompt gives you an error that directory not found

if you would want to explore more options use javac -help

[Henry Wong]

Ankur kothari wrote:....but i think i have seen it somewhere

If you remember where you saw it, I would be interested to know... as I have never saw three dots to have any special meaning, in any OS filesystem.

Henry

[Ankur kothari]

page 793 k&B book......

"which it builds within the existing .../classes directory"

[Paul Clapham]

That's an ellipsis. It's not meant to be taken literally as three separate dots.

[Ankur kothari]

ohhhhhh......so sorry