Strange cygpath behavior.

[Rolf Campbell]

On 2011-06-24 11:44, Fahlgren, Eric wrote:
> Marco atzeri wrote:
>> you are right, but it is not very useful to translate a windows path in a
>> windows path ...
>
> On the contrary, it is exceedingly useful to be able to transform long names (with spaces) into short-form names without spaces.
>
> $ cygpath -sm "$PROGRAMFILES"

That is only useful on systems that have 8.3 filenames enabled.


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