" what is the difference?

Asked Nov 07 '11 at 14:06

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unix, difference between path starting with '/' and '//'

If I make a cd // followed by a pwd I see:

# cd //
# pwd
//

why is that? what's the differece with:

cd /
pwd
/

Everything looks the same to me...

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:37

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asked Nov 07 '11 at 14:06

ztank1013

Even scarier, cd /// and more go back to giving /, so I suspect there's some special handling for // in the builtin pwd(/bin/pwd works as expected). – Ulrich Schwarz Nov 07 '11 at 14:50
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Duplicate: http://unix.stackexchange.com/q/12283/7285 – psusi Nov 07 '11 at 14:52
@Ulrich Have you tried with 2+ slashes? It behaves like the single slash... isn't it scary too?! – ztank1013 Nov 07 '11 at 14:53

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