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