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Re: Double slash root cwd
From: |
Jonathan Zdziarski |
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Re: Double slash root cwd |
Date: |
Sun, 11 Dec 2016 17:17:35 -0500 |
Cool... thanks!
Pardon teh spellnig; Sent form my iPhone
> On Dec 11, 2016, at 4:55 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
>
>> On 12/11/16 4:10 PM, Jonathan Ździarski wrote:
>> Hey there-
>>
>> Noticed in bash you can cd into paths prefixed with double slash; e.g. “cd
>> //usr/sbin” and it will set the pwd environment variable as such; not sure
>> if this was intended or not, but can see where some poor guy’s aliases or
>> bash scripts are likely to barf.
>
> Posix requires it. Look at the Bash FAQ, question E10, or one of the
> previous bug-bash discussions, such as
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-08/msg00294.html
>
> Chet
> --
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> Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/