Please do not use this tag. The / character ("forward slash", or just "slash") is a directory separator in URLs and in many operating systems including Linux (Windows uses \ (backslash) but many applications and APIs also accept /). It is also the division operator in many languages, and marks closing tags in XML/HTML. In some languages, / characters delimit regular expressions.
The slash character / (sometimes called forward slash to distinguish it from \ backslash) has several common meanings in computing:
/is the directory separator in file names filepath on Unix-like and POSIX operating systems, including Linux. Many Windows APIs and applications accept/as a directory (folder) separator, although some require a backslash\instead./is also the directory separator in URLs.- In many programming languages,
/is the division operator division. When applied to integers,/returns the quotient of the division in many languages. - In SGML sgml based languages including html and xml,
/marks closing tags, as in<b>bold</b>or<br />. /is a common delimiter for regular expressions regex searches (in sed, awk, perl, etc.).
