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From: "Cliff Hones" <cliff AT aonix DOT co DOT uk>
To: "SYLee" <dobest03 AT korea DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
References: <009601c397d2$ee3dcde0$c20731d3 AT myote>
Subject: Re: Why I can't type backslash under bash.
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 14:10:35 +0100
Organization: Aonix Europe
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SYLee wrote:
> My question is same as the subject.

But your subject wasn't a question - "Why can't I..." is a
question, while "Why I can't.." is the beginning of an
explanation (once you have discovered why you cannot).

> The output of "bash --version" :
> GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i686-pc-cygwin)
> Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> 
> Any other info needed? If so I'll post here..

Look at http://cygwin.com/problems.html

You have given almost no information.  If you are
a newcomer to bash and Unix, then maybe you haven't
realised that backslash is an escape character and must
be doubled in bash commands (as in C strings).  Or maybe
you have problems with your character set and keyboard
mapping.  We can only guess!

-- Cliff


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