Re: [SLUG] // ??

[James Wilkinson <jamesw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Marty Richards generated:

>Surprisingly it happily took me to //, which seems to be an alias for the /
>directory.

This (i think) is the shell, who can cope with things like /home//ftp
and so on.  It jsut collapses multiple '/'s into one.

>Interestingly this 'feature' does not occur on DeadRat, or on earlier
>versions of slackware.

Really?  I find that very strange.  Actually, if it's an old bash shell,
then maybe it doens't do the / collapsing.

>Does anyone know why this might have happened, and do other distro's behave
>similarly?

Debian does this.  Like I said, it's your shell, and I guess 2.x series
bash shells all support this.

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