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> I've always felt the better question is "Why is the UNIX path character "/"? Just a guess, but it's probably because \ is used for character escapes in C (an
by meepmorp 15y ago
> I've always felt the better question is "Why is the UNIX path character "/"?
Just a guess, but it's probably because \ is used for character escapes in C (and the Bourne shell). Given that the history of Unix is inextricably tied to C, it kind of makes sense to use / over \ so you don't have to do lots of \\ to escape path names.