> >due to a typo, I typed > > > >[klamath] ~>cd // > > > >today. Okay, I'm used to the shell[1] changing any // into /, so I > >expected to get to /. Now, I got there, but pwd/$PWD still have "//" in > >them? This is from the bash FAQ: 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'. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet ) Live...Laugh...Love Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU chet_at_case.edu http://tiswww.tis.cwru.edu/~chet/Received on Tue Feb 22 2005 - 20:12:44 UTC
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