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From: Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: extra slash in current path
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:17:54 +0200
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On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 3:14 PM, yuyichao-mit <yuyichao@mit.edu> wrote:
> 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 program=
=2E

Multiple consecutive slashes should not confuse any program.

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap03.html=
#tag_03_266

--alessandro

=A0"There's always a siren singing you to shipwreck"

=A0=A0 (Radiohead, "There There")