The backslash "\" is a special character, it is used for quoteing other
special characters such as ashtric "*". To prevent the shell from
expanding on the wildcard "*" and use as the literal character you would
use "\*". So to get the literal "\" you have to quote with a "\", so
you would use "\\" to mean "\". So to get two literal "\" you have to
use four "\".
Flippie Spies wrote:
>
> Why if I want to use smbclient I have to specify \\\\host\\\service.
> If I try \\host\service I get the following error:
> \hostservice: Not enough '\' characters in service
> ^^^^^^^^^^^
> It does not even put "\" between host and service.
>
> The strange thing is \\\\host\\\service works.
>
> WHY
>
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