cygwin path problems

[Randall R Schulz]

Igor,

At 07:05 2003-01-29, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>Randall,
>
>On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>
> > Igor, Soren,
> >
> > ...
> >
> > >Seriously, though, you could use something like
> > >     "`/bin/ls /cdv/D/goodies/babe*.jpg | cygpath -w -f -`"
> > >as the argument.  This should expand all the files.
> >
> > Did you try that? It doesn't work for me.
>
>Yes, I did try it.  I think the problem might be with the extra quotes
>around the `` construct, and there are issues with quoting paths with
>spaces properly, but on the whole it does work:
>
>$ echo `/bin/ls /bin/ch* | cygpath -w -f -`
>C:\cygwin\bin\chgrp.exe C:\cygwin\bin\chmod.exe 
>C:\cygwin\bin\chown.exe C:\cygwin\bin\chroot.exe
>
>...
>
> > For one thing, I see no indication in cygpath's "--help" output that an
> > argument of "-" tells it to read a name or names to convert from
> > standard input.
>
>$ cygpath --help
>Usage: cygpath (-d|-m|-u|-w|-t TYPE) [-c HANDLE] [-f FILE] [options] NAME
>        cygpath [-ADHPSW]
>[snip]
>Other options:
>   -f, --file FILE       read FILE for input; use - to read from STDIN
>                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>   -o, --option          read options from FILE as well (for use with --file)
>[snip]

Sorry. I missed the "-f" option, that's why I just got a hyphen in the 
cygcheck output.


>...
>
> > And for this case and many similarly simple ones, "tr" will do.
> >   Randall Schulz
>
>We all have our favorite tools ;-)
>
>     Igor


Randy 


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