On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > Tom H wrote: >>> >> > $ blkid -c /dev//null -p /dev/sdc1 >> Sorry "/dev/null" not "/dev//null". > > A very, very small tidbit. As long as the multiple '/' chars are not > at the very start of the string then it doesn't matter and one or more > are all the same as one. At the very start of the string it is > undefined or implementation defined or one of those meaning > non-portable because the old Apollo Unix systems used to use it to > indicate a network host name. And so POSIX allowed it. And so now > Cygwin uses it for the same thing too. But anywhere other than at the > start they are all collapsed into one. > > //hostname/some/path/file <- not portable > /some//path////file <- should be portable
Thanks. Learning basic stuff after so many years! :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=sxybhnkxbdtgydjzrjq4hj-dl5sqpfbo+qcno1suok...@mail.gmail.com
