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According to Frederick Alexander Thomssen on 2/22/2007 11:14 AM:
> > There is nothing wrong with removing $PWD.
> >
> OK, but what's wrong with removing . then?

POSIX forbids it, since on some filesystems, . is not an actual inode, but
merely a special-case artifact.  And GNU coreutils respects the rules of
POSIX.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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