[TriLUG] cd //

[Ron Joffe]

I got a quickie question for those of you in the know.

By mistake one of my clients did a cd /$ORACLE_HOME where 
ORACLE_HOME = /opt/oracle.

The resultant is that their prompt showed:

server_name://opt/oracle> 

So I played around a bit with it, and it seems that you can prepend the 
extra / easily. 

The question is does this have any significance ? I did notice that this seems 
to be bash shell specific, i.e. the behavior is not found in ksh or csh.

Any ideas, I'm just a bit curious.

Thanks,

Ron