Re^2: Windows and backslashes and replacements oh my!

[Anonymous Monk]

Which is weird for Windows. ..

it's not even a little bit weird. Variable expansion is basic job of shells.

turn it off in your batch files

SETLOCAL DISABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION

help setlocal

[LanX]

> it's not even a little bit weird. Variable expansion is basic job of shells.

The discussion was about "escape sequences" with \ not "variable expansion".

The escape meta in bat is ^ not \

And \ is - unfortunately - used as path separator in win, which rules out any use as escape character.°

Anything else would be indeed "weird", because it would make using paths impossible!

°) see Escape_character#Windows_Command_Prompt