/usr/bin tools and directories with backslashes

[Michael A. Chase]

That would certainly be a start, but you can also use '/' instead of '\' in
those strings.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey Twu" <jctwu@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 20:57
Subject: /usr/bin tools and directories with backslashes


> I like to use Cygwin in a Win2K cmd.exe shell, and I have
> C:\cygwin\bin in my PATH.  I've noticed, though, that commands that I
> use very frequently (mv, cp, rm, unzip) don't handle backslash ('\')
> directory strings very well.  For example, I tried to unzip foo.zip -d
> \, and no files could be created.
>
> I presume this is normal behavior?  And the advice is:  "Stop
> using cmd.exe and use {bash,tcsh}"?  Please confirm.  Thanks, much!



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