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Re: Why bash command "cd //" set path "//" ?
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Eric Blake |
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Re: Why bash command "cd //" set path "//" ? |
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Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:20:09 -0600 |
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On 08/26/2011 04:38 AM, Andrey Demykin wrote:
Why bash command "cd //" set path "//" ?
Because POSIX says that implementations may (but not must) treat //
specially. And rather than special case just the implementations that
do treat it specially (such as cygwin), bash globally respects // on all
platforms even where it is not special.
I found this in all version of the bash.
Excuse me , if it is not a bug.
Not a bug.
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