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Re:Path Isn't Real on Linux by quotemstr on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @08:12AM (#43844108)
> I often wish there was a convenient way of doing such an operation in the shell: if path start with "/", leave it, otherwise prepend "./"

Both bash and zsh have enough functionality exposed via shell functions and variables for you to define a keybinding that does exactly this, interactively. Good idea.

Did you mean an interactive command? Or something else?

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Re:Path Isn't Real on Linux by PhilipRoman on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @08:51AM (#43844488)
I meant non-interactive, for use in scripts which take user input. We already have "--" for end of options, but the support for it is not universal and even with that some programs will interpret certain strings in a special way. On the other hand, prepending the dot-slash should work for any program or argument passing style.
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