[GRLUG] Paths

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This has been a long standing feature of not just Linux but it comes from Unix from a long time back and facilitates easy concatenation of pathnames without having to scan for and remove the extra slashes.

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From: "Ben DeMott" <ben.demott at gmail.com>
> I feel like a noob asking this, and probably will be chastized for asking,
> 
> I was coding away today ... and I realized (not sure why I never noticed
> before) that python seemed to think //etc//httpd//conf.d was a perfectly
> legitimate directory name.
> 
> I then opened my terminal (bash) and was surprised to find that typing `cd
> //etc//httpd//conf.d`  worked just fine.
> 
> Is this a feature - or am I missing the point about something - and secondly
> would it be wise to allow this behaviour in my program for when an
> individual specifies a path?
> 
> Back to extreme tux racer ... (:SMILE:)


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