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    2 days ago

    That’s a good one 🕊️

    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