12 Dec
2016
12 Dec
'16
7:40 p.m.
I'm trying to decipher some Perl code which runs on a Windows server, and I ran into this:
$cmd = "./psexec.exe \\\\" . $server_name
I think the idea is to end up with
./psexec.exe \server
but WTF eight backslashes? Does that make any sense? If so, can someone ELI5?
Kevin