Re: cd accepting paths with trailing dots that don't exist (bashand tcsh)

[Shankar Unni]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:

Honestly, it's a Windows thingy.  Windows allows any number of trailing
dots for a path or file name.  Go figure!

And ".." is handled as a special case somewhere in Win32. For giggles, try "cd ..." or "cd ....". Both behave like "cd .". Anyway, it's not a cygwin bug.




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