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RE: backslash and backslash backslash
- To: "'Richardson, Anthony M.'" <ar63 at evansville dot edu>, Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux at microprocess dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: RE: backslash and backslash backslash
- From: Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux at microprocess dot com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 18:50:09 +0100
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richardson, Anthony M. [mailto:ar63@evansville.edu]
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 6:52 PM
> To: 'Bernard Dautrevaux'; cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: backslash and backslash backslash
>
>
> Umm. I don't think piping into read works
> either. (At least it doesn't for me.) I think
> it is because you set the variable in a subshell
> but not in the parent shell where you need it.
>
Yeah, probably; I'm use to pipe in read, but usually piping to a "while read
var; do ... done" block in which I use the var, so I type too fast. Anyway
my first suggestion was to use command substitution (either directly on the
netscape command line, or to set mypath as you did).
Regards,
Bernard
> Use
> mypath=$(cygpath -was $1)
> or
> mypath=`cygpath -was $1`
> instead.
>
> Regards,
> Tony Richardson
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bernard Dautrevaux [mailto:Dautrevaux@microprocess.com]
> > Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 11:25 AM
> > To: 'Wilson Farrell'; cygwin@cygwin.com
> > Subject: RE: backslash and backslash backslash
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Wilson Farrell [mailto:wfarrell@bbn.com]
> > > Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 5:56 PM
> > > To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > > Subject: backslash and backslash backslash
> > >
> > >
> > > In an attempt to access Netscape's sendto from cygwin I
> > > created a simple
> > > script:
> > >
> > > sendto.sh
> > > -------
> > > #!/bin/bash
> > >
> > > /usr/bin/cygpath.exe -aw $1; read mypath
> > >
> > > /cygdrive/c/Apps/Netscape/Program/sendto32.exe $mypath
> >
> > I'd rather try:
> >
> > /cygdrive/c/Apps/Netscape/Program/sendto32.exe
> > `/usr/bin/cygpath.exe
> > -aw $1`
> >
> > but in any case you should use:
> >
> > /usr/bin/cygpath.exe -aw $1 | read mypath
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Bernard
>
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