cd accepting paths with trailing dots that don't exist (bash and tcsh)
Shankar Unni
shankar@cotagesoft.com
Tue Dec 10 11:16:00 GMT 2002
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Honestly, it's a Windows thingy. Windows allows any number of trailing
> dots for a path or file name. Go figure!
And ".." is handled as a special case somewhere in Win32. For giggles,
try "cd ..." or "cd ....". Both behave like "cd .". Anyway, it's not a
cygwin bug.
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