cd // - bash is funny???

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 02:32:20PM -0800, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> [sobomax at sobomac ~]$ cd //
> [sobomax at sobomac //]$ pwd
> //
> [sobomax at sobomac //] /bin/pwd
> /
> [sobomax at sobomac //]
>
> What's that? Happens on bash 3.x, checked range of boxes from 6.x to 8.x  
> and arches from powerpc to amd64. "cd ///" at the same time is OK:
>
> [sobomax at sobomac //]$ cd ///
> [sobomax at sobomac /]$
>
> Is it off-by-one error?

The Bash FAQ covers this, I think.  See E10.

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