From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Dec 13 17:23:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from spork.pantherdragon.org (spork.pantherdragon.org [206.29.168.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF3F237B41D for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 17:23:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from pantherdragon.org (unknown [4.61.202.145]) by spork.pantherdragon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F618471E6; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 17:23:51 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3C1954A6.8264978A@pantherdragon.org> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 17:23:50 -0800 From: Darren Pilgrim X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nathan Mace Cc: Freebsd-chat Subject: Re: whats this?! References: <200112132105.QAA17035@uce55.uchaswv.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: > > Nathan Mace writes: > > > type 'cd //' and then do a pwd. > > > > what causes this? found it by accident > > I get "/" in pdksh, as expected. > > You might have found a feature of some proprietary shell. I wouldn't exactly call bash a proprietary shell: dmp@spark$ cd // dmp@spark$ pwd // dmp@spark$ echo $SHELL /bin/bash dmp@spark$ /bin/bash --version GNU bash, version 2.04.0(1)-release (i386--freebsd4.2) Copyright 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. dmp@spark$ uname -a FreeBSD spark.techno.pagans 4.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE #2: Tue Dec 4 20:56:41 PST 2001 root@spark.techno.pagans:/usr/src/sys/compile/SPARK i386 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message