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From: Dmitry Bely <dbely@mail.ru>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Multiple backslashes
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 08:55:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <sn891e0t.fsf@mail.ru> (raw)

This is probably a FAQ, but can you explain me why

bash -c "ls c:\\\\"

requires 4 backslashes? I can understand why 2 BS is needed, but 4 BS IMHO
are too much :-)

Hope to hear from you soon,
Dmitry



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             reply	other threads:[~2002-02-10 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-10  8:55 Dmitry Bely [this message]
2002-02-10  9:13 ` Randall R Schulz
2002-02-10  9:55   ` Dmitry Bely
2002-02-10 10:12     ` Randall R Schulz
2002-02-10 10:35       ` Dmitry Bely
2002-02-10 10:58         ` Randall R Schulz
2002-02-10 11:55           ` Dmitry Bely
2002-02-10 14:50             ` Randall R Schulz
2002-02-11  1:35               ` a problem with search path? (was: Multiple backslashes) Dmitry Bely
2002-02-11  8:57                 ` Randall R Schulz
2002-02-12  8:06                   ` Dmitry Bely
2002-02-11  5:41 Multiple backslashes Robinow, David
2002-02-12  2:15 ` Dmitry Bely

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