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Re:Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? by klodolph on Friday May 24, 2019 @06:14PM (#20005757)
You can name it "/", though. If you look at it in the terminal, it will be named ":".
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Re:Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? by saagarjha on Friday May 24, 2019 @06:17PM (#20005778)
And amusingly, if you create a file named ":" from the Terminal, it'll show up as "/" in Finder :)
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