Little cygpath improvement request

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 2/14/2014 1:22 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, All!
>
> I would like to request a small functional change for cygpath.
> In the event of empty given path argument (i.e. `cygpath -ml ""') silently
> return an empty result without error message.
> This would greatly simplify wrapper scripts.

Why isn't redirecting the message to /dev/null not sufficient, something
like this (bash syntax)?

cygpath -ml ""  >/dev/null 2&>1


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Larry

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A: Yes.
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