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xchaos@utopia:~$ cd //
xchaos@utopia://$

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@xChaos Uh, it also works on my system! But what theā€¦ ?

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@ptesarik @xChaos Shell does quite a lot of magic. With symlinks, you'll often find that prompt does not match pwd. Similary when you are in directory that was unlinked.
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@pavel @ptesarik it makes sense, kinda... in the old 1970's meaning of the word "sense" ;-)

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@xChaos @pavel That's what you get for not using tcsh. That shell is sane:

/home/petr> cd //
/> cd ///
/>

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@ptesarik maybe // is special reserved pathname, because of compatibility with URL schemes? but it is probably just shell level bug/feature... @pavel

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