Find the word definition

Crossword clues for subdirectory

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
subdirectory
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Following the instructions in the WordPerfect manual, you created a subdirectory to contain the WordPerfect program.
▪ It doesn't really matter, as long as you end up with copies other than in the subdirectory which is about to be burned.
▪ This runs the batch file which will put you in the correct subdirectory and run the program.
▪ This will execute a command in every subdirectory of a hard disk.
Wiktionary
subdirectory

n. (context computing English) A directory located inside another directory.

WordNet
subdirectory

n. (computer science) a directory that is listed in another directory

Usage examples of "subdirectory".

But under Unix the highest level--the root--of the filesystem is always designated with the single character "/" and it always contains the same set of top-level directories: /usr /etc /var /bin /proc /boot /home /root /sbin /dev /lib /tmp and each of these directories typically has its own distinct structure of subdirectories.

For high-level security installations, however, you might want to additionally set directory permissions to all subdirectories and existing files, as shown in the following list, immediately after WindowsNT is installed.

Be sure to apply permissions to parent directories before applying permissions to subdirectories.

In windowsNT 4, the single user profile has been broken up into a number of subdirectories located below the \profiles directory.

As for the alphabetical series, Juana had evidently subdivided her clients' files into subdirectories governed by the first letter of each client's last name.

If he'd been alone, he would have accessed the subdirectories for D and T.

If the killer had erased files in those subdirectories as he'd earlier mentioned, the man would wonder why Buchanan was interested in those same groups of names.