From:	m DOT hadfield AT niwa DOT cri DOT nz (Mark Hadfield)
Subject:	Path name conversions, Posix <-> Win32
13 Jan 1998 06:08:13 -0800 :
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To:	"Gnu-Win32 Mailing List" <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>

Where can I find command-line utilities for conversion between Cygwin32
Posix-style and Win32 path names? Eg, a pair of utilities that work like
this:

bash$ echo //C/foo | win32path
C:\foo
bash$ echo C:\\foo | posixpath
//C/foo

I know it's not too difficult to implement this via string substitution in
awk or bash. (The above examples are real output, produced by a pair of
Python scripts that I wrote.) What I really want is something that knows
about Cygwin32 mounts, eg:

bash$ mount D: /cdrom
bash$ echo D:\\foo | posixpath
/cdrom/foo
bash$ echo /cdrom/foo | win32path
D:\foo

Obviously this functionality is built into Cygwin32, but I don't know of any
simple way to access it at the command line.

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Mark Hadfield,  m DOT hadfield AT niwa DOT cri DOT nz
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research
PO Box 14-901, Wellington, New Zealand



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