From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 22 20:41:12 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA25C16A4CF for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 20:41:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mh2.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C58AF43D5C for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 20:41:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh2.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j1MKfAvk028546; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:41:10 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <421B98E3.70208@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:41:07 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andreas Kohn References: <1109103592.84939.11.camel@klamath.syndrom23.de> <20050222202947.GA56980@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20050222202947.GA56980@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.82/721/Tue Feb 22 08:01:26 2005 on mh2.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cd into // works? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 20:41:13 -0000 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 09:19:52PM +0100, Andreas Kohn wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>due to a typo, I typed >> >>[klamath] ~>cd // >> >>today. Okay, I'm used to the shell[1] changing any // into /, so I >>expected to get to /. Now, I got there, but pwd/$PWD still have "//" in >>them? > > > This is presumably a function of your shell. I think this is a function of how pwd is displaying the path - with a trailing slash or without. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology I have seen the future and it is just like the present, only longer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------