ulterno , 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago)

Just tried. It processes the escape first and then finds the path with it. Essentially, making it look into a directory made by the characters before the /.

The above was when I tried:

<span style="color:#62a35c;">echo </span><span style="color:#183691;">"asd" </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">></span><span style="color:#323232;"> asd</span><span style="color:#0086b3;">/</span><span style="color:#323232;">dsa
</span>

But then I tried using Dolphin (GUI File Browser) to make a file and:

<span style="color:#323232;">❯ ls
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> 1   2   3   4  </span><span style="color:#183691;">'asd⁄sad.txt'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">❯ ls
</span><span style="color:#323232;">1  2  3  4  asd⁄sad.txt
</span>

In the first one, the backslash is not the escape character, but part of the text.

Turns out Dolphin just replaces the forward slash with U+2044 “Fraction Slash” character, hence, not requiring any escape. I’d call that cheating, but it works well.