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Re: hello... the bash tokenizer
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: hello... the bash tokenizer |
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Tue, 29 Apr 2003 13:46:53 -0400 |
> I just noticed that "cd ////some///other/red//planet" works. Is this
> because of the way the argument is tokenized? Or (and) is there some
> deeper, more useful reason?
That's how the Unix file system works. Multiple consecutive slashes
have always been treated as a single slash, with the occasional
exception of a leading `//'.
Chet
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