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Cameron Kaiser spectre at floodgap.com
Tue Mar 4 07:55:06 CST 2008


> > Oh really?
> > % touch \/path
> > % ls -l \/path
> > -rw-r--r--   1 luser     luser  0 Mar  3 17:55 /path
> > % pwd
> > /home/luser
> > % ls -l /path
> > ls: /path: No such file or directory
> 
> If your machine *really* does that, not only do you have very
> different filesystem behaviour from every other Unix system I've seen,
> but also a very unusual shell, since it's not expanding \/ to /. Try
> "echo ls -l \/path" and "echo ls -l /path" -- do they give different
> output for you?

Well, I take this back. I'm not able to duplicate it now, so I'm not sure
what's changed.

FWIW, it's tcsh and Tiger on an HFSJ filesystem.

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