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Re: Why I can't type backslash under bash.
- From: "Cliff Hones" <cliff at aonix dot co dot uk>
- To: "SYLee" <dobest03 at korea dot com>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 14:10:35 +0100
- Subject: Re: Why I can't type backslash under bash.
- Organization: Aonix Europe
- References: <009601c397d2$ee3dcde0$c20731d3@myote>
SYLee wrote:
> My question is same as the subject.
But your subject wasn't a question - "Why can't I..." is a
question, while "Why I can't.." is the beginning of an
explanation (once you have discovered why you cannot).
> The output of "bash --version" :
> GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i686-pc-cygwin)
> Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
> Any other info needed? If so I'll post here..
Look at http://cygwin.com/problems.html
You have given almost no information. If you are
a newcomer to bash and Unix, then maybe you haven't
realised that backslash is an escape character and must
be doubled in bash commands (as in C strings). Or maybe
you have problems with your character set and keyboard
mapping. We can only guess!
-- Cliff
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