On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 8/16/2010 10:03 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: >> diff.exe -cdb -x "CVS" -x ".svn" -I "\$Id.*\$" --strip-trailing-cr -- >> "C:\...\php-tools\GalleryClass.php" >> "\\REMOTE\C$\...\php-tools\GalleryClass.php" >> diff: \REMOTE\C$\...\php-tools\GalleryClass.php: No such file or directory >> >> Why it ate the leading backslash? > > '\' is a escape character for Cygwin just the way it is in UNIX/Linux. > You either need to escape it or, better yet, use forward slashes.
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