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Re: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar |
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Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:28:58 +0200 |
> From: "Mark Galeck (CW)" <address@hidden>
> CC: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>, "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 11:49:49 -0800
> Accept-Language: en-US
> acceptlanguage: en-US
>
> Well OK, please do. But, is there any chance you can tell me, on Windows,
> using GNU make, and using either Windows echo or Cygwin echo (I can't predict
> which, some people have Cygwin installed some don't and I can't control that,
> I have to support either way),
>
> how do I reliably echo so that it echoes " \\foobar"
But you already found a way:
SHELL=cmd.exe
foobar:
echo \\foobar
(and rename echo.exe to something else, or remove it from PATH).
> by "reliably" I mean, that it is guaranteed to work now and later with future
> revisions of Gnu make?
The way it works with the Windows shell and Windows echo will not
change.
- RE: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar, Mark Galeck (CW), 2010/02/07
- RE: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar, Paul Smith, 2010/02/07
- RE: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar, Mark Galeck (CW), 2010/02/07
- RE: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar, Paul Smith, 2010/02/07
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- RE: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar, Mark Galeck (CW), 2010/02/07
- Re: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/02/07
- RE: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar, Mark Galeck (CW), 2010/02/07
- Re: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/02/07
- RE: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar, Mark Galeck (CW), 2010/02/07
- RE: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar, Mark Galeck (CW), 2010/02/07
- Re: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- RE: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar, Mark Galeck (CW), 2010/02/07
- Re: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/02/07
- RE: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar, Mark Galeck (CW), 2010/02/07
- Re: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/02/07
- Re: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar, tom honermann, 2010/02/08
RE: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar, Duane Campbell, 2010/02/07