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Re: cd // produces unexpected results
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: cd // produces unexpected results |
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Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:47:02 -0400 |
> By accident I keyed in :
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> cd //
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> and noticed that my prompt included both slashes.
Posix says shells have to leave two leading slashes in a pathname alone.
Three or more can be collapsed to one, but two have to stay unchanged.
This has come up multiple times in the past.
Chet
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