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Multiple backslashes
- From: Dmitry Bely <dbely at mail dot ru>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: 10 Feb 2002 19:45:54 +0300
- Subject: Multiple backslashes
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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