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Does not work this way in Zsh. What's the purpose of that in Bash?

• wruza 2y ago
  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20690828/what-does-double-slash-in-cd-mean-in-linux https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20690828/what-does-doubl...
  • keepamovin 2y ago
    Thank you for that! This was particularly interesting: Certain versions of Unix, and early network file systems, used paths of the form //hostname/path to access 'path' on server 'hostname'. It directly ties in with the URL format: scheme://hostname/path/to/file How cool it would be if we could go: cd //google.com/search?q=quack+like+duck and we would get a directory with 1 file per result (or to be really unix like: 1 directory per result, with a set of files and directories for different aspects of the result hehehe :))
    • wruza 2y ago
      This is an old idea behind “everything is file” and plan9, afaik. FUSE allows this, you can easily write a “driver” that does exactly this on a mountpoint like /mnt/mywebfs/whatever.com/search?q=…. /proc (procfs) is basically this but for kernel structures.
      • keepamovin 2y ago
        I recall somebody did this with www, I think at first using a browser extension? Webfs possibly. It is a really cool idea. I find it makes many things easy to deal with, and those that aren’t? Interesting to think about. The hierarchical abstraction of a file system is a good model from many things