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Re: Problem with bash
- To: ms at ley dot de
- Subject: Re: Problem with bash
- From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd at hotmail dot com>
- Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 14:14:35 PST
- Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
The \ character is a special escape character meaning to take the next
character literally. Therefore, if you want a \ character to be taken
literally with no special meaning then you need two, like this \\.
>From: "Michael M. Schmitz" <ms@ley.de>
>To: "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" <gnu-win32@cygnus.com>
>Subject: Problem with bash
>Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 17:54:46 +0100
>
>Hi...
>
>I have a small problem with bash. I want to get the special characters
like
>backslash, at, ... ! But in this shell is it inpossible to get these
chars ?
>Please help...
>
>Thanks in advance
>
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