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Re: Bash treats the directory '//' specially.
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Bash treats the directory '//' specially. |
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Mon, 9 Jul 2001 10:50:42 -0400 |
> Machine Type: i386-pc-linux-gnu
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> Bash Version: 2.03
> Patch Level: 0
> Release Status: release
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> Description:
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> chiark:~$ cd /; pwd
> /
> chiark:/$ cd //; pwd
> //
> chiark://$ cd ///; pwd
> /
> chiark:/$ cd //u2/jdamery; pwd
> //u2/jdamery
> chiark://u2/jdamery$ cd /u2/jdamery; pwd
> /u2/jdamery
This is not a bug. POSIX.2 requires that two leading slashes in a pathname
be preserved.
--
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