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Re: cygpath -u converts quoted UNC paths to local
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
> On Apr 3 19:20, Andrey Repin wrote:
>> Greetings, All!
>>
>> This can be considered "working by design", but it really imposes some serious
>> restrictions on interoperability with Cygwin, that I think can be avoided.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> After some further testing, this seems to be affecting IP-based UNC paths
>> only.
>>
>> The essence is this:
>>
>> $ dir "\\192.168.1.5\wwwroot\ccenter\bin\online.sh"
>> 26.10.2018 18:16 431 online.sh
>>
>> $ cygpath -u \\192.168.1.5\wwwroot\ccenter\bin\online.sh
>> //192.168.1.5/wwwroot/ccenter/bin/online.sh
>>
>> $ cygpath -u "\\192.168.1.5\wwwroot\ccenter\bin\online.sh"
>> /192.168.1.5/wwwroot/ccenter/bin/online.sh
> This shows that it's not cygpath. It's the quoting, thus the shell
> mangles the path.
Oh, sorry, stupid habit of mine.
Yes, in Windows convention, shell (CMD) does not perform unquoting.
This makes it impossible to reliable pass parameters to cygpath.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Thursday, April 4, 2019 10:48:12
Sorry for my terrible english...
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