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Due to a typo, I accidentally cd into //. Which turns out to be a real directory (but same content as /) So what is the difference between / and // (despite having identical content) Real example: (...
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I'm working on a python script that passes file locations to an scp subprocess. That's all fine, but I'm in a situation where I may end up concatenating a path with a filename such that there's a ...
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In unix/linux, any number of consecutive forwardslashes in a path is generally equivalent to a single forwardslash. eg. $ cd /home/shum $ pwd /home/shum $ cd /home//shum $ pwd /home/shum $ cd /home///...
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On 2013-01-10 Glenn Fowler posted this to the ast-users mailing list: As has been pointed out several times on the AST and UWIN lists, AT&T gives very little support to OpenSouce software, which ...
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There's no directory above /, so what's the point of the .. in it?
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I want to check if a shell variable contains an absolute path. I don't care if the path exists or not—if it doesn't I'm going to create it—but I do want to ensure that I'm dealing with an absolute ...
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How do I (recursively) detect all symlinks in a directory that identify their target in an absolute as opposed to in a relative way? Since these links are very likely to break when an entire ...
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I was querrying a server using a command like this: find ./ -type f -name 'filename" I got many files starting with .//library or .//user What do these things mean?
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Can anybody point to a man page or specification that defines the Universal Naming Convention (UNC)? I'm looking for the original source of the idea
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I have the below script which looks for the file in the current directory and evaluates to true if the file exists in the directory and evaluates to false if it does not #!/bin/bash printf "\n Please ...
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Is it a bug that, when I find ./path/here/ I get: ./path/here//foo ./path/here//bar I know find wants me to specify the path without the trailing slash, but surely it can detect the path that tab-...
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In POSIX compliant systems, is a path whose occurrences of (possibly overlapped) /./ have been substituted with / guaranteed to lead to the same target as the original one? Example: #!/bin/bash shopt ...
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I have a path to a file that has duplicate slashes which would like to simplify. For example, if I have the following: /opt//bin//executable I would like to get: /opt/bin/executable
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In Unix/POSIX/Linux systems it's possible to set the temporary directory via the TMPDIR variable. Wikipedia references a specification by the Open Group mentioning this. What this doesn't answer for ...
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When I change directory to //, it seems to put me in a special directory that is very similar to but slightly different to /. However, trying to add any further slashes (///) simply drops me in /. $ ...
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