Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:36:30 +0900 From: YONETANI Tomokazu <qhwt+fbsd@les.ath.cx> To: Andreas Kohn <andreas.kohn@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cd into // works? Message-ID: <20050223033630.GA996@les.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <1109103592.84939.11.camel@klamath.syndrom23.de> References: <1109103592.84939.11.camel@klamath.syndrom23.de>
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On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 09:19:52PM +0100, Andreas Kohn wrote: > 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? > > [klamath] //>pwd > // > [klamath] //>echo $PWD > // > [klamath] //>cd //home// > [klamath] //home>pwd > //home Hi, I may be missing your point, but it's in the bash FAQ: $ less "+/^POSIX.2," /usr/local/share/doc/bash/FAQ > I checked with Linux, and there everything works as expected: > [catalina] ~>cd // > [catalina] />pwd > / > > Is this expected behavior? This one isn't expected, or maybe the bash version is old (according to CHANGES file, bash-2.0.1-release is the first release with this change in path canonicalization). Cheers.
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