Re: // in paths

[Ralph Winslow <rjw@nac.net>]

When David S. Zelinsky wrote, I replied:

I can't help with what causes it, but I can tell you that it's no big
deal.  /usr/local/bin//foo is equivalent to /usr/local/bin/foo  (i.e.
the double (or triple or whatever) slashes are the same as one slash).
> 
> When I type (in bash):
> 
>    % type foo
> 
> it returns
> 
>    foo is /usr/local/bin//foo
> 
> with two /'s before `foo'.  (I get the same effect with `csh' and `which'.)
> Has anyone else seen this behavior?  Anyone know what's causing it?  Or how to
> fix it?
> 
> I'm using Debian 2.0 (hamm); kernel version 2.0.34
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> David Zelinsky
> zelinsky@us.net
> 
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