{"id":117,"date":"2025-09-20T23:54:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T23:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vinpearl.ca\/?p=117"},"modified":"2025-09-20T23:54:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T23:54:27","slug":"robocopy-interprets-trailing-backslash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vinpearl.ca\/index.php\/2025\/09\/20\/robocopy-interprets-trailing-backslash\/","title":{"rendered":"robocopy interprets trailing backslash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li>In <strong>Windows path rules<\/strong>, <code>C:\\folder\\<\/code> is still valid.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>But <strong>Robocopy parses arguments differently than normal Win32 APIs<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It sometimes strips the last backslash and treats it as an <strong>escape character<\/strong> if quotes aren\u2019t handled correctly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>With <code>\\<\/code> right before a closing quote, Robocopy sees it as escaping the quote, making the path invalid.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So the issue isn\u2019t the backslash itself \u2014 it\u2019s the <strong>combination of backslash + quotes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the issue isn\u2019t the backslash itself \u2014 it\u2019s the combination of backslash + quotes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vinpearl.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vinpearl.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vinpearl.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vinpearl.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vinpearl.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vinpearl.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/vinpearl.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vinpearl.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vinpearl.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vinpearl.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}