alt Hacker NewsThe biggest issue I remember is directory seperators... windows of course using \ which bash would then interpret as an escape. Cygwin mostly papered over that from what I can recall, but it could lead to some weirdness, like sometimes you'd get C:\\path\\es\\like\\this
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rpeden • today at 3:41 AM
You could also use forward slashes, like C:/path/subpath, which has worked since Windows 1.0/DOS 2.0.
That's handy when you're entering paths in a Cygwin/MSYS Bash shell, but might not help much if you're trying to parse or otherwise work with existing patgh variables composed with backslashes.
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coldtea • today at 9:06 AM
Always used / and it worked for both cygwin/windows lands.
We should be using the baguette emoji for path separators for cross-platform compatibility.
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