No idea when this happened but you can also use forward slashes in Windows. So typing c:/users into the Explorer address bar works.
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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You can even mix and match! C:\tmp/file.txt is valid. Very helpful for cross-os compatibility.
Does only windows do this or do Linux and mac work with both slashes too ?
I thought linux was pretty strict with this
only windows, afaik. On linux \ is the escape symbol
Windows is the odd one out, everywhere else uses forward slash.
On classic MacOS the path separater was a ":".
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).
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
This is what happens when you have Windows coming out of the CP/M micro operating system family and everybody else is some kind of Unix derivative.
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