Forward slash vs backward slash for file path in git bash

Question

I am running these two commands in Git bash.

Why they behave differently? Aren\'t they supposed to do the same thing or am I missing something?

Answer 1

Backslash is an escape character used to escape meta characters. This means you need to escape the escape:

D:\\Patches\\afterWGComment.txt

Alternative you can put your string in single quotes, which will make all characters literal:

'D\Patches\afterWGComment.txt'

Some meta characters: *, ~, $, !, ...