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Re: cygpath and spaces in filenames when reading from a file


On Dec 30 16:15, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 01:18:50PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 01:01:29PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>On Dec 29 17:11, Jon Beniston wrote:
> >>>cygpath can read a list of paths to convert from a file, when started
> >>>with -file.  However, how do you specify paths with spaces in them in
> >>>this mode?  It seems quoting the path or using \ doesn't seem to work.
> >>>E.g:
> >>
> >>No, it doesn't.  Space is used as the field separator in the file.  I
> >>assume we need an extension like allowing to specify another separator.
> >>Another one for next year...
> >
> >That's an option that I added.  I am surprised that it is space
> >delimited since I thought I intended to make it newline delimited.
> >
> >I'll take a look at it.
> 
> The option processing was changed from the time I first added it.
> AFAICT, at that point it did take one file per line.  Now it breaks on
> spaces.

Hmm, the original code only recognized spaces if options_from_file_flag
was given and the first arg started with a dash.  I thought using argz
processing would simplify things but apperantly it's overdoing it.
I've fixed it in CVS.


Corinna

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