Most unices don't do anything special with two initial slashes. Line 6 - The backslash ( \ ) in front of the single quote ( ' ) is needed as the single quote has a special meaning for bash and we don't want that special meaning. * @param isunix if zero, MS-DOS path seperators are used in the internal * CAB filename. the stringification of the proxied location looks like it was normalizing the path and prepending a slash. Closes: #616614 Based on a patch by Johannes Schauer . You can have as many commands here as you like. New WordPress 3.5.2 multisite (subdirectory) install is missing a slash when creating new blogs. that commit switched to copying the incoming request (which was being manually constructed from the parsed subresource path) as-is, which left the path missing a leading / Let's break it down: Line 4 - Let's see if the first command line argument is greater than 100; Line 6 and 7 - Will only get run if the test on line 4 returns true. With ${1%"${1#/}"} if the first char is not a slash the expansion is null, but if it is a slash it expands only to the slash. * Add ‘.mailmap’ to the default dpkg-source ignore lists. It's pretty straightforward. When you type a command into the command prompt in Linux, or in other Linux-like operating systems, all you're doing is telling it to run a program. If non-zero, UNIX path seperators are used. If you type cd home/directory, that will only work if you are in location /, similarly, if you are in /home, you could type cd directory, but not cd /directory (because that doesn't exist, it's either /home/directory, or just directory from /home) Also, @ If you want to get rid of "Removing leading `/' from member names" being printed to STDERR, but still want to leave off those leading slashes as tar wisely does by default, I saw an excellent solution here by commenter timsoft.. * Add support to dpkg-deb for reading the archive from standard input, except for --raw-extract which does not yet support it. * @param utf8 if non-zero, the internal CAB filename is encoded in UTF8. Even simple commands, like ls , mkdir , rm , and others are just small programs that usually live … If you type cd /home/directory, you can do that from anywhere, because it is the full path.. /is the very top of your filesystem. Furthermore, if both the slash and non-slash URLs are reachable, this breaks down. – mikeserv Jan 20 '16 at 7:03 For that matter case $1 in /*) ;; esac also works in bash and is a damn sight clearer than ${1:0:1} . * @param lower if non-zero, filename should be made lower-case. Even though the OP asked specific for Linux, it may be worth noting that the OS or flavor of tools used may make a difference. Maybe you should think about what your decision would mean for files. * Set the SE Linux context on «dpkg-statoverride … The exception is that “a pathname that begins with two successive slashes may be interpreted in an implementation-defined manner” (but ///foo is equivalent to /foo).. For the most part, repeated slahes in a path are equivalent to a single slash.This behavior is mandated by POSIX and most applications follow suit. 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