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Multi-dot paths
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Multi-dot paths
- From: Tim Iverson <iverson at cisco dot com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 16:05:00 -0800 (PST)
Several folks have asked what "multi-dot" relative paths are. Win95
will resolve each extra dot to mean back up one more directory; eg.
. = cwd
.. = previous dir
... = ../..
.... = ../../..
etc.
Under bash, you can actually use these, but it looks kinda funny if you've
put the CWD into your prompt -- bash doesn't know that "..." backs up, so
you get "/foo/bar/.../baz> " for a prompt. PWD is also broken -- it just
looks up the shell's idea of CWD when it should be asking the OS.
- Tim Iverson
iverson@cisco.com
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