From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: Problem with bash 7 Nov 1997 14:37:21 -0800 Message-ID: <19971107221435.9603.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain To: ms AT ley DOT de Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com The \ character is a special escape character meaning to take the next character literally. Therefore, if you want a \ character to be taken literally with no special meaning then you need two, like this \\. >From: "Michael M. Schmitz" >To: "gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" >Subject: Problem with bash >Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 17:54:46 +0100 > >Hi... > >I have a small problem with bash. I want to get the special characters like >backslash, at, ... ! But in this shell is it inpossible to get these chars ? >Please help... > >Thanks in advance > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Michael Schmitz Software-Ley GmbH >Lindenstr. 15 Phone: +49 2238 96600 (Windows '95 >D-50259 Pulheim Fax: +49 2238 50842 crash compatible >Germany Email: ms AT col DOT sw-ley DOT de with Windows 3.x) > >- >For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to >"gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- -earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".