On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 11:44:01AM +1100, Paul Robinson wrote:
> I tried with higher numbers of /'s but it always took me to /

Not special to /, cd /tmp////////////////////////////////////////
will take you to /tmp.  Substitute any dir for /tmp

> is there any reason why // works?

Unix has always had this.

Just a convenience thing as far as I know.

Matt
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