From: iverson AT cisco DOT com (Tim Iverson)
Subject: Multi-dot paths
4 Apr 1997 19:44:02 -0800
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Several folks have asked what "multi-dot" relative paths are.  Win95
will resolve each extra dot to mean back up one more directory; eg.

  .    = cwd
  ..   = previous dir
  ...  = ../..
  .... = ../../..
  etc.

Under bash, you can actually use these, but it looks kinda funny if you've
put the CWD into your prompt -- bash doesn't know that "..." backs up, so
you get "/foo/bar/.../baz> " for a prompt.  PWD is also broken -- it just
looks up the shell's idea of CWD when it should be asking the OS.


- Tim Iverson
  iverson AT cisco DOT com
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