[RndTbl] (Simple?) Perl question

[Kevin McGregor]

I'm trying to decipher some Perl code which runs on a Windows server, and I
ran into this:

$cmd =  "./psexec.exe \\\\\\\\" . $server_name

I think the idea is to end up with

./psexec.exe \\server

but WTF eight backslashes? Does that make any sense? If so, can someone
ELI5?

Kevin
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