What is a "parent directory"?

Question

When I type mydeardiary.com in my search engine, I get a "parent directory" and last date modified 1 September 2009.

Answer 1

"Refers to the directory above another directory. Every directory, except the root directory, lies beneath another directory. The higher directory is called the parent directory, and the lower directory is called a subdirectory."

Answer 2

In computer science, on of the most important structures is called a tree. As you go down the tree, you get to the "children", as you go up the tree, you go through the parents. File systems (on hard drives ) are one common example of the tree. Directories are the proper name for what Windows usually refers to as folders.



For instance the top of the tree in Windows is the drive letter(C:\). C: has several children, such as Windows and Program Files. So if you are in C:\Program Files, C: is the parent and all the folders in there (like WIndows NT, Microsoft Office, and so on) are the children.



In order to let you move up in the directory tree, all directories contain a link to their own parent (usually listed as ..). That's what you're seeing here.

Answer 3

A parent directory is a directory that holds subfolders which is also called the parent folder. The subfolders within the parent folder are called child folders.



And folders that are within a certain directory are called sibling folders.



Here's a small breakdown:



There is the main folder: Parent Directory



and within that main folder (parent directory) are two subfolders: Child directory1 and Child directory 2



Child Directory 1 and Child Directory 2 are sibling directories, and they are child directories of the parent directory.



I hope that helps! :)

Answer 4

A directory that contains the current directory.