cygwin path problems

[Randall R Schulz]

Scott,

You're close, but missing some critical syntax.

Your invocation:

java -jar cygpath -m /usr/local/ags/libs/makeThumbs.jar

simply passes to the "java" command the "-jar" option and the argument 
strings "cygpath" "-m", etc.

You clearly want the to pass as arguments to "java" the result of 
_running_ the command "cygpath -m /usr/local/ags/libs/makeThumbs.jar". 
That's done like this:

java -jar "$(cygpath -m /usr/local/ags/libs/makeThumbs.jar)"


That should do what you want. Be sure that the arguments to cygpath are 
quoted, if necessary (in this case they aren't, but if you're, say, 
passing on arguments in a script context, be sure to use the quotes so 
as to prevent later baffling errors):

java -jar "$(cygpath -m "$jarFile")"

Note, too, that if you have a classpath variable in POSIX format 
(colons and no drive letters), you'll need to use something like 
"$(cygpath -pm "$POSIXCLASSPATH")" to convert it.


Only (_only_) Cygwin-linked code will understand the "/cygdrive/..." 
file names.


Randall Schulz


At 10:57 2003-01-27, Scott Purcell wrote:
>I am having a hard time understanding the cygpath. I don't know why... 
>But anyway. I am running Win2000.
>I have created a executable jar file that lives at
>/usr/local/ags/libs/test.jar
>
>And jar is good and runs from a dos window if I move the test.jar to C:/
>
>Anyway, I am trying to run it through cygwin so I am typing the following:
>
>spurcell@DSGSTL-PC-1523 /cygdrive/c
>$ java -jar cygpath -m /usr/local/ags/libs/makeThumbs.jar
>Exception in thread "main" java.util.zip.ZipException: The system 
>cannot find th
>e file specified
>         at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method)
>         at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:105)
>         at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:110)
>         at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:52)
>
>I have also tried
>
>$ java -jar /cygdrive/usr/local/ags/libs/makeThumbs.jar
>Exception in thread "main" java.util.zip.ZipException: The system 
>cannot find th
>e path specified
>         at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method)
>         at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:105)
>         at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:110)
>         at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:52)
>
>
>I can't seem to get cygwin to run this. Could someone advise me on this.
>
>Thanks,
>Scott


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