Strategy to process all tokens on a line through "cygpath -w", ignoring non-path tokens

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Karr, David wrote:

> I have a situation where I have a command line that I need to preprocess
> with "cygpath -w", changing all tokens which represent paths to convert
> them to their windows equivalent.  All other tokens should pass through
> unchanged.  Is there already a canned solution for this?  What would be
> a reasonable strategy to get this done?

In general it's impossible without some heuristics or application
knowledge.  For one example on how to do this, see the java* wrapper
scripts that I posted to this list a while ago (e.g.,
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-01/msg00174.html> or see them in CVS at
<http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/wrappers/java/?cvsroot=cygwin-apps>).
HTH,
	Igor
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