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Re: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar |
Date: |
Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:28:11 +0200 |
> From: "Mark Galeck (CW)" <address@hidden>
> CC: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>, "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:44:09 -0800
>
> >The way it works with the Windows shell and Windows echo will not
> change.
>
> wait, we already established, that this has nothing to do with shell or echo
> - on Windows, GNU make is currently stripping one of 3 backslashes in a
> command like this:
>
> Foobar:
> perl foobar.pl \\\foobar
>
>
> and, I think we have established that this behavior is undocumented ( I think
> Paul is saying it is a bug, and you are saying you are not sure).
It does that only when it does not invoke builtin commands.
- RE: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar, (continued)
- RE: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar, Mark Galeck (CW), 2010/02/07
- RE: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar, Paul Smith, 2010/02/07
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- RE: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar, Mark Galeck (CW), 2010/02/07
- Re: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/02/07
- RE: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar, Mark Galeck (CW), 2010/02/07
- Re: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/02/07
- RE: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar, Mark Galeck (CW), 2010/02/07
- RE: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar, Mark Galeck (CW), 2010/02/07
- Re: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/02/07
- RE: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar, Mark Galeck (CW), 2010/02/07
- Re: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- RE: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar, Mark Galeck (CW), 2010/02/07
- Re: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/02/07
- Re: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar, tom honermann, 2010/02/08
RE: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar, Duane Campbell, 2010/02/07