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Battle of the slashes (lemmy.world)
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[–] punkid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Does only windows do this or do Linux and mac work with both slashes too ?

I thought linux was pretty strict with this

[–] Malix@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

only windows, afaik. On linux \ is the escape symbol

[–] inverimus@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Windows is the odd one out, everywhere else uses forward slash.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

On classic MacOS the path separater was a ":".