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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