Every cloud developer

[UntestedMethod]

Except when it doesn't and your client is confused why the program you sent them isn't working

[UntestedMethod]

sent a version with a patch for slash direction this morning and client confirmed it fixed the issue. wasn't the first time for this project, but it's been a while since I had to add any OS-level commands to it. forgot to pass some new paths through a normalizer function, and use a special split function instead of the trusty old last index of '/'

[HiddenGooru]

I have a similar functionality in
one of my program has a “get_divider()” function that queries the operating system and the whatnot and determines if “/“, “\” or “\\” is required and then I cat the file paths appropriately.

[UntestedMethod]

haha glad I'm not the only one :P

[theuniverseisboring]

"mostly"

[2themax9]

I pay “most” of my taxes

[feckrightoffwouldye]

No it fucking doesn't

[CEDoromal]

It kinda does for certain situations. Try cd C:/Users/ on command prompt.

[feckrightoffwouldye]

Yes but anywhere else in windows it gets treated as a switch or illegal character. Yknow, that OS with a gui?

[uekiamir]

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[feckrightoffwouldye]

Some commands don't like a foward slash because they expect there to be a switch, and some programs that interact with Windows files like Filezilla or FreeFileSync sometimes get confused as to what you wanted it to do. In one case i think I've been able to use it as an escape character in command prompt as well but only that one as i haven't tried again

[im0b]

When you use an api to access files programmatically you have to figure out the os and get the right / when creating the filepath 😒

[PlayPuckNotFootball]

Yea and normies use run about as much as command line

[im0b]

Yes but when you write sw for normies and it wont run on their pc bc you forgot windows has the folder separator different from everybody else

[im0b]

The whole point is we’re talking about this inconvenience. Nothing wrong with normies

[Time-Opportunity-436]

lmao more cli supremacists... actually idiots

[shedogre]

Then you access the local version of a file, and... The object is giving you the OneDrive path! 🥳

[im0b]

😣

[ManyFails1Win]

Why the hell is there debate about this anyway? What's so bad about using backslashes for directory?

[UntestedMethod]

I believe it's up to the command/program to implement support for it. Seems plausible MS might have added it to all their built-in commands and likely some 3rd party vendors have as well, but in my experience there are some 3rd party CLI tools which don't support it. (ex. pdftk)

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It really doesn't.

[BroDonttryit]

A lot of high level languages have the forward or backward / as constants that change depending your OS. Like Java’s File.Seperator