semicolon colon separated env vars to unix and viceversa
Karr, David
david.karr@cacheflow.com
Thu Nov 8 09:53:00 GMT 2001
Just use "cygpath -p -u $CLASSPATH". That does everything you're trying to
do here.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Enrico Spinielli [ mailto:Enrico.Spinielli@marconi.com ]
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 9:48 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: semicolon colon separated env vars to unix and viceversa
>
>
> Hi,
> I wanted to transform my CLASSPATH env var settings (yes, I
> am using Java :-) from Windows format (semicoln-separated
> list of win paths) to Unix format (colon separated list of
> unix paths) and here is an excerpt of the script I have written:
> #!/bin/bash
> # change an env var from Windows format (semicolon separated)
> # to Unix format (colon separated)
> IFS=@
> for i in ${1//;/@}
> do
> a=${a}:$(cygpath -u $i)
> done
> echo $a
>
> This works fine but I am wondering if there is something else
> given that PATH is automatically converted by cygwin...
>
> Any idea?
> bye
> Enrico
>
>
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