[badc0ffee]

At which layer? dir /w, for example, is never going to list the contents of \w.

[pjmlp]

All the layers, except applications where devs still look for the wrong slash manually.

OSes and modern programming languages have APIs for file navigation for a reason.

On Windows this implies old applications from another era, good old command window, or people that don't know better.

[vips7L]

The kernel and ntfs does not care about slash direction. Specific programs like dir might though and honestly if you're on windows just use powershell and avoid legacy cmd stuff.

[pjmlp]

Additionally on programming languages use the apis for path management, instead of explicit looking for the \ or / characters.

[recursive]

Use powershell.

Get-ChildItem /w

[jimjimjim]

Too many keystrokes, people won't use it.

[ranger_danger]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsof...

[yyyk]

gci /w than?

[recursive]

ls /w also works

[pjmlp]

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