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On 8/16/2010 10:03 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, All!
>
> Trying to find differences between local and remote file, I run into an issue:
>
> diff.exe -cdb -x "CVS" -x ".svn" -I "\$Id.*\$" --strip-trailing-cr -- "C:\...\php-tools\GalleryClass.php" "\\REMOTE\C$\...\php-tools\GalleryClass.php"
> diff: \REMOTE\C$\...\php-tools\GalleryClass.php: No such file or directory
>
> Why it ate the leading backslash? Isn't it supposed to convert UNC path to
> proper one? User's guide tell me this shouldn't be an issue, or so I read it
> this way. Can anyone enlighten me on this matter, please?

'\' is a escape character for Cygwin just the way it is in UNIX/Linux.
You either need to escape it or, better yet, use forward slashes.

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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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