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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help in preserving special characters from input file Post 302390907 by methyl on Friday 29th of January 2010 11:06:37 AM
Old 01-29-2010
One observation. Is it safe to assume that the file names in your variables are for a Windows or Netware server? Filenames containing a backslash character "\" will give you grief in a unix filesystem and as you have found require special treatment in shell variables. The unix delimiter between a directory name and a file name is of course a solidus character "/".
 

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