Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> A little more info, quoting from the Autoconf manual:
And I will respond to the quoted part from the autoconf manual
realizing that Stefano isn't saying it but just passing the message
along. :-)
> POSIX lets implementations treat leading // specially, but requires le
On 6/22/12 5:58 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> On 06/22/2012 09:47 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
>>> By accident I keyed in :
>>>
>>> cd //
>>>
>>> and noticed that my prompt included both slashes.
>>
>> Posix says shells have to leave two leading slashes in a pathname alone.
>> Three or more can be collap
On 06/22/2012 09:47 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> By accident I keyed in :
>>
>> cd //
>>
>> and noticed that my prompt included both slashes.
>
> Posix says shells have to leave two leading slashes in a pathname alone.
> Three or more can be collapsed to one, but two have to stay unchanged.
> This has
> By accident I keyed in :
>
> cd //
>
> and noticed that my prompt included both slashes.
Posix says shells have to leave two leading slashes in a pathname alone.
Three or more can be collapsed to one, but two have to stay unchanged.
This has come up multiple times in the past.
Chet
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By accident I keyed in :
cd //
and noticed that my prompt included both slashes. Further testing, I think,
reveals a minor issue:
root@billlaptop ~# pwd; cd //; echo PWD=$PWD; cd /root; echo OLDPWD=$OLDPWD
/root
PWD=//
OLDPWD=//
I don't believe PWD and OLDPWD should contain double slashes as th
