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Re: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:58:11 +0200

> From: "Mark Galeck (CW)" <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 06:05:21 -0800
> Accept-Language: en-US
> acceptlanguage: en-US
> Cc: 
> 
> I can see it is not passed to the shell, because the shell does simply echo:
> 
> C:\>echo \\\foobar
> \\\foobar

That's cmd.exe, but Make will by default invoke sh.exe if it finds one
on your PATH.  Do you have one?




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