Ingvar Mattsson <ingvar@cathouse.bofh.se> wrote:
+---------------
| And the effort spent in squishing slashes is, eh, rather mis-spent
| since in (at least most, if not all) unixes you can access a file with
| multiple slashes without a problem.
+---------------
Indeed. *Including* trailing slashes for plain files, too:
% ls -l foo
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpw3 engr 27 Oct 27 20:18 foo
% cat foo
This is a plain text file.
% cat foo/
This is a plain text file.
% pwd
/u/rpw3
% cat ///u///..///u///.///rpw3///.///.///foo///
This is a plain text file.
%
-Rob
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