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Re: BUG: Invalid assumption about file paths beginning with '\'
- To: Neil Zanella <nzanella at cs dot mun dot ca>, cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: BUG: Invalid assumption about file paths beginning with '\'
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 18:27:25 -0700 (PDT)
--- Neil Zanella <nzanella@cs.mun.ca> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Chris Faylor wrote:
>
> > It is not clear from this context, but hopefully you know that \ is a
> > special character in bash. I think a one line statement of that fact
> > might have been more useful than the above 20 lines of "What's he trying
> > to say?"
> >
> > So, just to be perfectly clear, you have to either double the \ character
> > in bash or quote it if you want a program to see it.
>
> And now, just in case anyone on this list was still wondering, the
> complete bash reference manual is available from:
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash
> So there you go.
>
Why not just `info --file /usr/info/bash.info'?
Cheers,
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Earnie Boyd
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