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    Battle of the slashes (lemmy.world)
    submitted 2 years ago by Linuxmemed to c/linuxmemes
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    [–] woelkchen 26 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    No idea when this happened but you can also use forward slashes in Windows. So typing c:/users into the Explorer address bar works.

    [–] CupDock 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You can even mix and match! C:\tmp/file.txt is valid. Very helpful for cross-os compatibility.

    [–] punkid 5 points 2 years 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 10 points 2 years ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

    [–] woelkchen 4 points 2 years ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Beat me to it. It works in CMD/PowerShell too. It's easier to just train your muscle memory to always use / regardless of platform

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

    I use forward slashes in all of my software's paths, so I don't have to fiddle around with it when I'm porting to Linux (in the future, I'll likely go from "dev on Windows, port to Linux" to "dev on Linux, port to Windows).