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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Mark Galeck (CW)" <address@hidden>
> CC: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>, "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:44:09 -0800
> 
> >The way it works with the Windows shell and Windows echo will not
> change.
> 
> wait, we already established, that this has nothing to do with shell or echo 
> - on Windows, GNU make is currently stripping one of 3 backslashes in a 
> command like this:
> 
> Foobar:
>       perl foobar.pl \\\foobar
> 
> 
> and, I think we have established that this behavior is undocumented ( I think 
> Paul is saying it is a bug, and you are saying you are not sure).  

It does that only when it does not invoke builtin commands.