A directory or folder that is one level above the current (child) directory Any parent directory can be accessed using the short cut ( ) two periods For example: dir would produce a list of the files held in the parent directory
Any directory that has one or more levels of directories beneath it in a cell namespace A directory is the parent of any directory immediately beneath it in the hierarchy
The parent directory is the directory immediately "above" the current directory tree (the tree is an upside-down tree for historical reasons)
A directory that contains subdirectories and files In graphical user interface applications, this may be called the parent folder
The directory that contains the current working directory That is the current working directory is a subdirectory of the parent directory
directory above the current directory on the directory tree, directory to which the current directory belongs
the directory immediate above the current directory within which the current directory resides It is denoted by a " " symbol For example, if the current directory were /www/mhome/jdoe/www, typing "cd " would make the current directory /www/mhome/jdoe
The directory in which another directory resides The directory that is contained in the parent is called a subdirectory