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[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

The backslash is a descending line showing that the subdirectory is under the parent directory, as it would be in a tree view.

[-] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

If that's the case we should all be using โ”–

[-] passepartout@feddit.org 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That's a good one ๐Ÿ•Š๏ธ

So they come together like this:

topdir
   |
subdir

Also, with a little imagination, if you interpret it as a fraction, you'd have the topdir as a common denominator like this:

topdir\subdir1, topdir\subdir2

You would also have to read it from right to left for it to make sense though:

subdir1/topdir, subdir2/topdir

But considering this approach, when writing the parts of the fraction below each other, the topdir is below the subdir (like a real tree growing from the ground lol). The "subdir is under topdir" analogy gets lost, which is my main problem with the backslash approach:

topdir\subdir

=>

subdir
***
topdir
this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2025
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