Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/10/10/13:09:37
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 09:04:48AM -0700, Masterson, Dave wrote:
>Searching the source is almost always longer than asking a (hopefull, well
>conceived) question -- especially when you're working on other things.
Well, if you are not going to trust the help output of any command that you
run then, in the long run, downloading the source would be faster.
The whole point of the help output is to provide you with a list of all
of the options. If you don't trust that, why should you trust some
random response in a mailing list?
cgf
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chris Faylor [mailto:cgf AT cygnus DOT com]
>Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 4:57 PM
>To: 'cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com'
>Subject: Re: Short option for Cygpath...?
>
>
>On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 04:52:02PM -0700, Masterson, Dave wrote:
>>I don't see it in "cygpath --help" for Cygwin 1.1 -- is there an option to
>>have cygpath output the short name for a path, ie.:
>>
>> <input> <output>
>> /mnt/c/Program Files/Emacs -> /mnt/c/PROGRA~1/Emacs
>> C:\Program Files\Emacs -> C:\PROGRA~1\Emacs
>> /mnt/c/Program Files\Emacs -> C:\PROGRA~1\Emacs
>>
>>It would save on having to figure out the quoting needed to handle names
>>with spaces...
>
>There is no such option in 1.1.4. It will be in the next release.
>
>Btw, you could look in the source to figure this out if you didn't trust
>the help output.
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