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Re: Why bash command "cd //" set path "//" ?


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: Why bash command "cd //" set path "//" ?
Date: 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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