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What is directory "//"?

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Mar 15, 2026398 views

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On various linux machines you can and The shell will say the current directory is '/' or '//' after using the corresponding command. So the question is: What is the difference between '/' and '//', and if the answer is 'no difference' then why is '//' shown differently than '/' BTW All result in th…

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Let's ask the man himself (Chester Ramey): E10) Why does 'cd //' leave $PWD as '//'? POSIX.2, in its description of 'cd', says that three or more leading slashes may be replaced with a single slash when canonicalizing the current working directory. …

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