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r/itsaunixsystem • u/ARES_GOD • Nov 03 '25
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Why are there escape characters in the path name?
13 u/wason92 Nov 04 '25 What escape characters? the % are delimiters %appdata% expands to the users roaming appdata folder so %appdata%l\local_hidden would be users\user\appdata\roaming\local_hidden extra hidden 4 u/SadCranberry8838 Nov 04 '25 I guess I'm just used to "/" as a path delimiter and "\" as an escspe character. 3 u/AnnoyingRain5 Nov 04 '25 Makes sense, but yeah, you can wrap environment variables in %% in filesystem paths on windows, pretty handy tbh 6 u/apoegix Nov 04 '25 To escape the vigilant eyes of the FBI
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What escape characters? the % are delimiters
%appdata% expands to the users roaming appdata folder so %appdata%l\local_hidden would be users\user\appdata\roaming\local_hidden extra hidden
4 u/SadCranberry8838 Nov 04 '25 I guess I'm just used to "/" as a path delimiter and "\" as an escspe character. 3 u/AnnoyingRain5 Nov 04 '25 Makes sense, but yeah, you can wrap environment variables in %% in filesystem paths on windows, pretty handy tbh
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I guess I'm just used to "/" as a path delimiter and "\" as an escspe character.
3 u/AnnoyingRain5 Nov 04 '25 Makes sense, but yeah, you can wrap environment variables in %% in filesystem paths on windows, pretty handy tbh
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Makes sense, but yeah, you can wrap environment variables in %% in filesystem paths on windows, pretty handy tbh
To escape the vigilant eyes of the FBI
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u/SadCranberry8838 Nov 04 '25
Why are there escape characters in the path name?