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Re: BUG: Invalid assumption about file paths beginning with '\'
- To: cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: BUG: Invalid assumption about file paths beginning with '\'
- From: Neil Zanella <nzanella at cs dot mun dot ca>
- Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 19:39:03 -0230 (NDT)
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.
Neil
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