"Paul Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > is there any reason why // works?
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/bash/ " E10) Why does `cd //' leave $PWD as `//'? POSIX.2, in its description of `cd', says that *three* or more leading slashes may be replaced with a single slash when canonicalizing the current working directory. This is, I presume, for historical compatibility. Certain versions of Unix, and early network file systems, used paths of the form //hostname/path to access `path' on server `hostname'. " E11 always bugged me. Lots of good stuff in the faq. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
