I wrote a little function, that "translates" a Windows path to a OSX path and opens it in the Finder. The function works perfectly with bash, but not with zsh (I use oh-my-zsh).

The problem is that it parses specific backslash combinations, for instance: `\f`, `\a`, `\01`, `\02`, `\03`, etc...

For example, this path string is the input:

```
"\60_Project\6038_Projekt_Part\05_development\assets\img\facebook"

```

After the translation function, the `\f` sequence (from `img\facebook`) is incorrectly translated as whitespace, producing the output:

```
"/60_Project/6038_Project_Part_developmentssets/img
                                                                                   acebook"

```

*My goal is to just paste in a Windows path and not have to manually change anything.*

**How can I escape or quote a string with zsh, to get the result I want?**

Here is the code I wrote:

```sh
function parsewinpath {
  echo $1 | sed -e 's/\\/\//g'
}

function openwinpath {
  echo "Opening..."
  open $(parsewinpath "/Volumes/myvolume$1")
}

```

Usage:

```sh
openwinpath '\60_Project\6038_Project_Part\05_development\assets\img\facebook'

```

The result should be that the Finder opens:

```
/Volumes/myvolume/60_Project/6038_Project_Part/05_development/assets/img/facebook

```