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  From: Ant <fineales@ozemail.com.au>
  To  : Nathan Millhouse <nmlinuxsa@voidnet.com.au>
  Date: 29 Apr 2003 23:51:50 +0930

Re: cd // ??????

The shell takes the prompt from the user input if the cd was successful.
// is syntactically the same as / so Its valid and cds there. Same as
sometimes in buggy scripts you see a path with a double / somewhere in a
path yet it works the same none the less. 

Ant

On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 23:41, Nathan Millhouse wrote:
> Can anyone enlighten me here,
> 
> I made a typo when changing directories and acciedently typed 'cd //'
> to my supprise the bash prompt changed to //  but when doing an 'ls' it 
> displays the contents of '/'
> 
> This happens on both my Linux boxen so I'm assuming it's supposed to do 
> that.
> Any comments on why or what its for?
> I can't find anything on the net as searching for "cd //" or alike on 
> the net yields
> usless results because of the contents of the query.
> 
> 
> Nathan Millhouse
> 
> 
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