> A friend of mine pointed out that Linux's interpretation of a trailing
> '/' on ordinary files differs from traditional Unix behaviour.
>
> On Linux:
> $ touch z
> $ cat z/
> cat: z/: Not a directory
> All quite reasonable and logical, but Solaris behaves this way:
>
> : aegis:pts/4; echo foo > z
> : aegis:pts/4; cat z/
> foo
> Now I would say that Linux makes complete sense, and the Solaris
> behaviour looks like sloppy handling to mee. My friend who raised the
> issue points out that its consistent if you regard '/' as a delimiter in
> the same way as whitespace is delimiter in /bin/sh, and consequently you
> should just ignore trailing '/' as you would trailing whitespace on a
> command like.
A trailing / isn't like trailing whitespace - it's like appending '':
weejock@ferret:~$ cat ''
cat: : No such file or directory
Matthew.
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