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Date:	Thu, 08 Nov 2001 18:54:42 +0100
From:	Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov AT syntrex DOT com>
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To:	Enrico Spinielli <Enrico DOT Spinielli AT marconi DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: semicolon colon separated env vars to unix and viceversa
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Ciao, Enrico

You can try the "cygpath" utility to perform this task.

Enrico Spinielli wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I wanted to transform my CLASSPATH env var settings (yes, I
> am using Java :-) from Windows format (semicoln-separated
> list of win paths) to Unix format (colon separated list of
> unix paths) and here is an excerpt of the script I have written:
>      #!/bin/bash
>      # change an env var from Windows format (semicolon separated)
>      # to Unix format (colon separated)
>      IFS=@
>      for i in ${1//;/@}
>      do
>           a=${a}:$(cygpath -u $i)
>      done
>      echo $a
> 
> This works fine but I am wondering if there is something else
> given that PATH is automatically converted by cygwin...
> 
> Any idea?
> bye
> Enrico

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