From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32309 invoked by alias); 10 Feb 2002 16:55:16 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 32222 invoked from network); 10 Feb 2002 16:55:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO relay.rinet.ru) (195.54.192.35) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 10 Feb 2002 16:55:15 -0000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by relay.rinet.ru (8.11.6/8.11.6) with UUCP id g1AGtAm10919 for cygwin@cygwin.com; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 19:55:10 +0300 (MSK) X-Envelope-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: from bely.stormoff (BELY) [192.168.0.10] by stormoff with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16Zx6s-0006W9-00; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 19:45:50 +0300 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Multiple backslashes From: Dmitry Bely Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 08:55:00 -0000 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Civil Service (Windows)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2002-02/txt/msg00503.txt.bz2 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/