Migrating from MKS to Cygwin

[Marco Atzeri]

On 7/6/2015 8:12 AM, Sarbjit singh wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> My organization is evaluating Cygwin as a replacement for MKS. We will
> be using Cygwin primarily for running our regression cases on windows
> (Regression cases are common for Unix and  Windows Platforms). Goal is
> to migrate to Cygwin with minimal changes to be done at regression
> test cases scripts (Makefile etc.).
>
> So far, the main challenges are  with "pwd" command and  the
> invocation of applications with .bat extension.
>
> PWD Command:

Iy you need to translate between cygwin style and windows style
paths the best way is to use cygpath

 From Bash prompt:

$ pwd
/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32

$ cygpath -w $(pwd)
C:\WINDOWS\system32

$ pwd
/tmp

$ cygpath -w $(pwd)
E:\cygwin64\tmp

>
> Thanks in Advance,
> Sarbjit

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