Path conversion issue

[Csaba Raduly]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin)  wrote:
> On 8/16/2010 10:03 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
>> diff.exe -cdb -x "CVS" -x ".svn" -I "\$Id.*\$" --strip-trailing-cr --
>> "C:\...\php-tools\GalleryClass.php"
>> "\\REMOTE\C$\...\php-tools\GalleryClass.php"
>> diff: \REMOTE\C$\...\php-tools\GalleryClass.php: No such file or directory
>>
>> Why it ate the leading backslash?
>
> '\' is a escape character for Cygwin just the way it is in UNIX/Linux.
> You either need to escape it or, better yet, use forward slashes.

Or protect the backslashes: use single quotes

'\\REMOTE\C$\...\php-tools\GalleryClass.php'



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