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unix, difference between path starting with '/' and '//'
If I make a cd // followed by a pwd I see:
# cd //
# pwd
//
why is that? what's the differece with:
cd /
pwd
/
Everything looks the same to me...
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Even scarier, `cd ///` and more go back to giving `/`, so I suspect there's some special handling for `//` in the builtin pwd(`/bin/pwd` works as expected). – Ulrich Schwarz Nov 07 '11 at 14:50
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1Duplicate: http://unix.stackexchange.com/q/12283/7285 – psusi Nov 07 '11 at 14:52
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@Ulrich Have you tried with 2+ slashes? It behaves like the single slash... isn't it scary too?! – ztank1013 Nov 07 '11 at 14:53