does anyone know the difference between running an application in the two
following ways?

#/sbin/'any_binary'
and
#/sbin//'any_binary'

?

On 2008-07-20, heavytull wrote:
> does anyone know the difference between running an application in the two
> following ways?
>
> #/sbin/'any_binary'
> and
> #/sbin//'any_binary'

There is no difference; // is the same as /.

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On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:59:47 +0000, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:

> On 2008-07-20, heavytull wrote:
>> does anyone know the difference between running an application in the
>> two following ways?
>>
>> #/sbin/'any_binary'
>> and
>> #/sbin//'any_binary'
>
> There is no difference; // is the same as /.

is it same with | and ||?

heavytull <heavytull@hotmail.com> writes:

>On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:59:47 +0000, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:

>> On 2008-07-20, heavytull wrote:
>>> does anyone know the difference between running an application in the
>>> two following ways?
>>>
>>> #/sbin/'any_binary'
>>> and
>>> #/sbin//'any_binary'
>>
>> There is no difference; // is the same as /.

>is it same with | and ||?
No.

Nor is it the same with a and aa

> #/sbin//'any_binary'

"//" means a real single character "/" in certain programming languages.

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Man-wai Chang ToDie (33.6k) wrote:
>> #/sbin//'any_binary'
>
> "//" means a real single character "/" in certain programming languages.
>

the first "/" is called an escape character.

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"Man-wai Chang ToDie (33.6k)" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> writes:

>Man-wai Chang ToDie (33.6k) wrote:
>>> #/sbin//'any_binary'
>>
>> "//" means a real single character "/" in certain programming languages.
>>

>the first "/" is called an escape character.

Uh, no. you got your slashes turned around -\\ is a single \ in shell
programming. But in a path in the unix filesystem, // means the same as /
and / is not an escape character. This is to make shell scripting easier.
eg you could have defines
A= /usr/local/
and later used
${A}/bin/program
to run a program. That expands to /usr/local//bin/program. If that // were
not interpreted as / this would mean you would have to be very careful in
defining your variables-- unnecessarily so since there is nothing that //
could mean but /



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