POSIX Pathname Definition
A few Unix-like systems use a similar syntax. POSIX allows treating a path beginning with two slashes in an implementation-defined manner, though in other cases systems must treat multiple slashes as single slashes. Many applications on Unix-like systems (for example, scp, rcp and rsync) use resource definitions such as:
hostname:/directorypath/resourceor like URLs with the service name (here 'smb'):
smb://hostname/directorypath/resourceRead more about this topic: Path (computing)
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