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From: yuyichao-mit <yuyichao@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: extra slash in current path
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:26:55 -0400
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Well, actually, I mean why is // so special if more than two slash at
the beginning of absolute path become only one slash?

Yichao Yu

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Alessandro Suardi
<alessandro.suardi@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 3:14 PM, yuyichao-mit <yuyichao@mit.edu> wrot=
e:
>> The problem is like this:
>>
>> $ cd /
>> $ pwd
>> /
>>
>> $ cd /
>> $ pwd
>> //
>>
>> $ cd ///
>> $ pwd
>> /
>>
>> Why can there be a extra slash (and exactly one) in current path? Is
>> this designed on purpose?
>> This is not really a big deal but I think it can confuse some progra=
m.
>
> Multiple consecutive slashes should not confuse any program.
>
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap03.ht=
ml#tag_03_266
>
> --alessandro
>
> =A0"There's always a siren singing you to shipwreck"
>
> =A0=A0 (Radiohead, "There There")
>