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klodolph on May 24, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Sepa...

You can name it "/", though. If you look at it in the terminal, it will be named ":".

saagarjha on May 24, 2019 [–]

And amusingly, if you create a file named ":" from the Terminal, it'll show up as "/" in Finder :)

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