> By accident I keyed in : > > cd // > > and noticed that my prompt included both slashes.
Posix says shells have to leave two leading slashes in a pathname alone.
Three or more can be collapsed to one, but two have to stay unchanged.
This has come up multiple times in the past.
Chet
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