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Re: window command in bash


Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
Igor Peshansky wrote:
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
Did you quote the path or escape the backslashes to protect the
backslashes from the shell interpreting them as escape characters?
	E.g., AgBackup.exe /notext 'c:\Alligate\agbackupfiles'
or
	AgBackup.exe /notext "c:\Alligate\agbackupfiles"
A minor correction: you still need to escape the backslashes when
using double quotes, so the right way is


AgBackup.exe /notext "c:\\Alligate\\agbackupfiles"

Here's what bash does:


/c> echo  "c:\Alligate\agbackupfiles"
c:\Alligate\agbackupfiles

Maybe if one has a variable following the backslash:

/c> echo "xyz\$USER"
xyz$USER
/c> echo "xyz\\$USER"
xyz\BBuchbinder

I think the point is that "\\" is ALWAYS safe, whereas "\?" (where "?" is some character) may not be.


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