no such file or directory using "-" character

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sun Aug 3 21:27:27 UTC 2014


On Sun, 2014-08-03 at 15:25 -0500, g wrote:
> "cd /.../" is not legal.

It's perfectly legal. Whether it means anything or not depends on the
existence or otherwise of a directory called "/..." (the closing '/' is
ignored). The only system-reserved names are '/', '.' and '..'. Anything
else is legal, including <space> and <carriage-return> (though you may
have difficulty using them.

poc



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