quick easy *nix question

[dabuddha]

Just want to confirm this but does an extra "/" in directory names have any effect?

such as:

cd //etc/

ll //root

TIA

 

[Cogman]

hmm, I didn't even think that was correct syntax. No, I don't believe it changes anything other then the way the directory is displayed (I could be wrong though)

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Good question. Maybe Nothinman might have an idea.

 

[Nothinman]

Not as far as I can tell but bash might be cleaning it up for me, / isn't a valid character in filenames so there's no chance of you needing to use it for anything except directory separators.

I just wrote a quick C program to test it and it worked with /tmp//////somefile too so I don't think it matters at all.

 

[lousydood]

No. // is considered to be the same as /. This decision was made to simplify shell scripts a bit.