mkdir with /dirname prepended

[vickey_20]

I want to make I directory with the '/' prepended in it's name ie if i created a dir vickey before now i would like to create the same dir with '/' prepended now. How do i accomplish that ??

[b2bwild]

Its not possible, because "/" is not allowed in file/directory name
but "\" is allowed.

[vickey_20]

isn't there any way to name it like that??
like this mkdir \/directory ..
I tried like that but it creates the dir in the /

[vickey_20]

what is exact usage if '\' in naming dir/file???

[b2bwild]

'\' is used to ovverride the meaning of a character or symbol.
e.g.
If you type command
$ mkdir Audio Projects
It will create 2 directories, Audio and Projects
to ovverride meaning of space and use it as character '\' is added.
$ mkdir Audio\ Projects
Which will create one directory of name 'Audio Project'
same way $ mkdir "Audio Projects"
However '\/' reverse slashing wont work, / is not allowed in any file/folder name.

[vickey_20]

hey posting after a long time!!
I opened the man page of cd . There is a option -L , just few lines above that I see a statement which says "If dir begins with a slash(/).....". Now this means that dir can have a '/' prepended .

[i92guboj]

Not really. Read it carefully:

If the directory operand begins with a slash character

The directory operand is just that, an operand specified on the command line. Slashes can be used on that operand, but they have a special meaning. What you want to do is simply impossible as far as I know at file system level. So it doesn't really matter which useland tools you use, Linux won't let you this. That is, unless you are willing to do some -I suspect very heavy- patching on your kernel sources.

[vickey_20]

thanks for replying
I use RHEL5 and the man pages say exactly as what I have posted. Which OS are you using??

[i92guboj]

thanks for replying
I use RHEL5 and the man pages say exactly as what I have posted. Which OS are you using??

I use Gentoo. Maybe we just have different versions of the man page. But in any case, you can't use / in a file or directory name.

[b2bwild]

Man pages are mostly not different but basic linux things are nearly same in all distros.