I agree with Achim. Don't use Microsoft Windows paths.
Cygwin has a function called cygpath which is very handy to use to convert paths and use in zsh and other shell scripts
In zsh, using zsh syntax, I use it like this:
Convert the first argument to a micrsoft window format pathname
winpath=$(cygpath -w $1)
or to convert a Windows formatted pathname to unix like do:
fname=$(cygpath -w ${windows-type-ifname})
a hardcoded filename would be
fname=$(cygpath -w ${C:\miscrosoft\windows-type-ifname.abc})
* you may need to quote the flename to escape : or \....
Thomas Deinhamer<thasmo@gmail.com> wrote:
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I'm new to Cygwin, new to this newsgroup too. ;)
I'm running Cygwin and using the zsh shell.
In the .zshrc file I got these lines:
alias vboxmanage=VBoxManage
vboxmanage setproperty machinefolder "C:\Users\$USER\VirtualBox VMs\"
When I try to boot a VM using vagrant (which
uses vboxmanage internally I think) sometimes
$USER is not resolved to the real username.
Instead vboxmanage creates a new machinefolder
on C:/ which is then called "Users$USER" and
inside this folder there is the folder "VirtualBox VMs",
so the wrong path is "C:\Users$USER\VirtualBox VMs\".
How could that be? Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
Do I need to escape the backslashes or is
there anything else I need to take care of?
I'm wondering why it only fails sometimes.
Thanks a lot,
Thomas