From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Dec 14 0: 0:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BF2637B405 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 00:00:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 334A3C364; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 00:00:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA08239; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 00:00:46 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fBE7xkK19928; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 23:59:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: fcash@bigfoot.com Cc: Freebsd-chat Subject: Re: whats this?! References: <3C1954A6.8264978A@pantherdragon.org> <3C18E8BA.24815.F0A8EDA@localhost> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 13 Dec 2001 23:59:45 -0800 In-Reply-To: <3C18E8BA.24815.F0A8EDA@localhost> Message-ID: Lines: 10 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 "Freddie Cash" writes: > It's a Bash "feature". Anywhere that you can use / in a path, you can > use multiple /'s. It only sees the first one and ignores everything up > to the first non-/ character. AFAIK, that's true of all shells and also of the OS and OS library routines. How PWD is set does seems to be a "bash" feature. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message