LinuxSA Mailing list archives

  From: <davidn@rebel.net.au>
  To  : Nathan Millhouse <nmlinuxsa@voidnet.com.au>
  Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 02:04:22 +0930 (CST)

Re: cd // ??????

Nathan Millhouse <nmlinuxsa@voidnet.com.au> 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 is an example of why I despair of Linux documentation.  Real unix
systems explain that slash is a directory separator and that all natural
number repetitions of them are equivalent.

-- 
LinuxSA WWW: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/ IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
To unsubscribe from the LinuxSA list:
  mail linuxsa-request@linuxsa.org.au with "unsubscribe" as the subject