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Re: Could I use backslash directly as path delimiter on cygwin?



Mark J. Reed wrote:
> 
> The double-backslash solution you've already found is inconvenient for
> copy and paste; a more paste-friendly solution is to use single
> quotation marks around the whole path:
> 
> cd 'd:\dira\dirb'
> 
> If you find an odd command that doesn't understand backslash-delimited
> path names, combine the single quotes with cygpath:
> 
> oddcmd "$( cygpath 'd:\dira\dirb' )"
> 
> -- 
> Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com>
> 
Yes, this is what I want, and thanks for the replies...:clap:

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