Typing "cd //" takes me to a directory apparently called "//". pwd then
shows me to be in "//".
This seems to happen on Slackware 7.0, Suse 6.4 and at least one version of
Debian so far.
So this is a POSIX thing? maybe. How come its not all distro's then? Or is
it a recent kernel thing (2.2.14 on mine).
Cheers,
Marty
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Herbert Xu
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 10:09 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SLUG] // ??
>> I accidently typed cd // on one of my slackware 7.0 boxes.
>> Surprisingly it happily took me to //, which seems to be an alias for
the /
>> directory.
Two leading slashes leads to implementation-defined behaviour, per POSIX.
That's why bash leaves them alone. Three or more leading slashes are
equivalent to a single one.
So don't use two leading slashes in your scripts if you want to be portable,
but you can use two slashes (as another way of writing a single slash) when
they're in the middle or at the end.
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