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Date:	Sat, 24 Jul 2004 14:10:43 -0400
From:	Volker Quetschke <quetschke AT scytek DOT de>
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Subject:	Mangling of '\\' by cygwin dll
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Hi,

I run into a strange problem while using sed from a cmd.exe shell.

The problem is not sed specific and the following lines demonstrate
it with /bin/echo.

 From cmd.exe:
C:\>\cygwin\bin\echo.exe '1 \ 2 \\ 3 \\\ 4 \\\\ 5 \\\\\ 6 \t'
1 \ 2 \ 3 \\ 4 \\ 5 \\\ 6 \t

It looks like each \\ is translated into \. Like escaping for
special characters, but it doesn't happen for single \.

This effect doesn't happen in bash:
$ /bin/echo.exe '1 \ 2 \\ 3 \\\ 4 \\\\ 5 \\\\\ 6 \t'
1 \ 2 \\ 3 \\\ 4 \\\\ 5 \\\\\ 6 \t

Bug or feature? I didn't find anything about this in
<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html>.

Ah, yes,
$ uname -s -r
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.10(0.116/4/2)

Volker

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