Re: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar
Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
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> From: "Mark Galeck (CW)" <[email protected]> > CC: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 10:52:58 -0800 > Accept-Language: en-US > acceptlanguage: en-US > > echo \\\foobar > CreateProcess(C:\Tools\cygwin\bin\echo.exe,echo \\foobar,...) Obviously, Make removes one of the 3 backslashes, before it invokes echo.exe. I will try to look into this some day. But this area is so delicate, what with all the shells it supports, that I'd hesitate to change anything unless I see a clear bug.