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Subject:	Re: semicolon colon separated env vars to unix and viceversa
To:	"Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov" <ptsekov AT syntrex DOT com>
Cc:	"cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From:	"Enrico Spinielli" <Enrico DOT Spinielli AT marconi DOT com>
Date:	Thu, 8 Nov 2001 19:13:10 +0100
Message-ID:	<OFC7914ABF.633EFF1F-ONC1256AFE.0063FCEB@uk.marconicomms.com>
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	08/11/2001 18:13:23
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On 08/11/2001 18.54.42 ptsekov wrote:
>
> Ciao, Enrico
>
> You can try the "cygpath" utility to perform this task.
>

That is exactly what I did, but I had to decompose the
list of path before using it...

> 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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