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

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

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Re^3: Windows and backslashes and replacements oh my! by LanX (Sage) on Jun 18, 2021 at 20:36 UTC
> 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! Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery} °) see Escape_character#Windows_Command_Prompt	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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> 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!

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)

Wikisyntax for the Monastery}