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RE: Cygwin /tmp\foo behaviour
- To: "Cygwin-Xfree" <cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: Cygwin /tmp\foo behaviour
- From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 11:41:36 -0400
> >I was suggesting to test by typing /tmp\c00017569.base in bash
> and it will
> >return /tmpc00017569.base. This was to show that /tmp\c00017569.base
> >was not same as /tmp/c00017569.base.
>
> If you are going to try to show the difference then have somebody type:
>
> /tmp\\c00017569.base
> ^^
> two backslashes
>
> Otherwise, the backslash is eaten by bash before any program sees it.
That was what happening to him and that's why I type with single \ to
show that get eaten by bash and ld returned "no such file"
Suhaib
>
> cgf