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)
Famous quotes containing the word definition:
“Beauty, like all other qualities presented to human experience, is relative; and the definition of it becomes unmeaning and useless in proportion to its abstractness. To define beauty not in the most abstract, but in the most concrete terms possible, not to find a universal formula for it, but the formula which expresses most adequately this or that special manifestation of it, is the aim of the true student of aesthetics.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)