On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 08:41 AM, Heinz Nabielek wrote:
> # find /Users/heinz/ -name "kersten*"
> /Users/heinz//Pictures/kersten.pdf
>
> # find /Users/heinz/ -name "Kersten*"
> /Users/heinz//Documents/Kersten.jpg
>
> What is the meaning of the double slashes?
> (Perhaps more Darwin than fink specific?)
The '/' is the separator for path names in a unix path name, and by
definition, multiple successive '/'s are not semantically meaningful (to
the entity that actually parses the path name in the kernel). Some user
programs (like emacs) may, in some cases, assign additional semantics to
the occurrence of multiple slashes, but there is no inherent
(system-wide) meaning to them.
In your particular case, the 'find' command assumes that when you pass
it a directory name, you won't terminate with a '/', so it adds one just
to be sure. Thus, when it prints a path name, it will do, roughly
speaking,
printf("%s%s\n", "/Users/heinz//", "Pictures/kersten.pdf");
Hope that helps.
Regards,
Justin
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