window command in bash

[mwoehlke]

Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> Igor Peshansky wrote:
>> On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
>>> Did you quote the path or escape the backslashes to protect the
>>> backslashes from the shell interpreting them as escape characters?
>>> 	E.g., AgBackup.exe /notext 'c:\Alligate\agbackupfiles'
>>> or
>>> 	AgBackup.exe /notext "c:\Alligate\agbackupfiles"
>> A minor correction: you still need to escape the backslashes when
>> using double quotes, so the right way is 
>>
>> 	AgBackup.exe /notext "c:\\Alligate\\agbackupfiles"
> 
> Here's what bash does:
> 
> /c> echo  "c:\Alligate\agbackupfiles"
> c:\Alligate\agbackupfiles
> 
> Maybe if one has a variable following the backslash:
> 
> /c> echo "xyz\$USER"
> xyz$USER
> /c> echo "xyz\\$USER"
> xyz\BBuchbinder

I think the point is that "\\" is ALWAYS safe, whereas "\?" (where "?" 
is some character) may not be.

-- 
Matthew
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