Reading/Writing files

[Nobody]

On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:00:55 -0700, Ethan Furman wrote:

Dan Stromberg wrote:

> / works fine on windows, and doesn't require escaping ("/foo/bar").

"/" works fine in most contexts, but not in shell commands, where "/" is
conventionally used to indicate a switch. Commands which follow this
convention typically recognise "/" as the start of a switch even when it
is immediately preceded by a letter (with no intervening whitespace).