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Date:      13 Dec 2001 23:59:45 -0800
From:      swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen)
To:        fcash@bigfoot.com
Cc:        Freebsd-chat <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: whats this?!
Message-ID:  <quhequ9qq6.equ@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <3C18E8BA.24815.F0A8EDA@localhost>
References:  <3C1954A6.8264978A@pantherdragon.org> <3C18E8BA.24815.F0A8EDA@localhost>

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"Freddie Cash" <fcash@bigfoot.com> writes:

> It's a Bash "feature".  Anywhere that you can use / in a path, you can 
> use multiple /'s.  It only sees the first one and ignores everything up 
> to the first non-/ character.

AFAIK, that's true of all shells and also of the OS and OS library
routines.

How PWD is set does seems to be a "bash" feature.

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