Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Dec 1998 07:06:03 +0100 (CET) | From | Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <> | Subject | Re: Linux's interpretation of trailing '/' |
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On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> $ touch z > $ cat z/ > cat: z/: Not a directory > $ cat z// > cat: z//: Not a directory > $ cat z/. > cat: z/.: Not a directory > > All quite reasonable and logical, but Solaris behaves this way:
I don't find the error message logical, since you can't cat a directory.
cat: z/: Not a directory cat: /: Is a directory
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