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cygpath usage (was: RE: Posible bug in cygpath Windows -> Unix conversion)
- To: "Bob McGowan" <rmcgowan at veritas dot com>
- Subject: cygpath usage (was: RE: Posible bug in cygpath Windows -> Unix conversion)
- From: "Andrej Borsenkow" <Andrej dot Borsenkow at mow dot siemens dot ru>
- Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:20:08 +0400
- Cc: "Cygwin mailing list" <Cygwin at Sourceware dot Cygnus dot Com>
>
> It looks like the conversion assumes a "drive_letter:slash" and so is
> cutting the first 3 characters, producing the output you see. This is
> probably the result of using the -a option, forcing cygpath to assume
> the source string is an absolute path when in fact it is not.
>
I believe, the option -a means, that the *result* should be absolute path.
Look here:
mw1g017@MW1G17C% cygpath -a -u foo
/cygdrive/c/win32app/bin/foo
mw1g017@MW1G17C% cygpath -a -w foo
c:\win32app\bin\foo
At least, I always understood it this way. Correct me if I'm wrong.
-andrej
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