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Double back slash. Was: Re: Why did you guys break EVERYTHING...
- From: Milton Calnek <milton at calnek dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 21:43:38 +0600
- Subject: Double back slash. Was: Re: Why did you guys break EVERYTHING...
I was wondering if anyone else thinks d:\\foo is too complicated...
or rather that it could be simplifed to d:/foo. Or if you made the
shell read :\ as :\ then we would have a more uniform interface...
Hmmm... I'm sure that this issue is more complicated than I understand
at this point.
I'm just remembering how much I appreciated it when samba made their
commands parse //host/share as well as \\\\host\\share.
In message <FC169E059D1A0442A04C40F86D9BA7600C5E90@itdomain003.itdomain.net.au>, "Robert Collins" writes:
> As for the tools, by and large they all support d:\foo syntax as well -
> but remember, if you run them within bash, the \ becomes an escape
> character, so you need d:\\foo for the tool to see the backslash.
>
> Rob
>
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