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Date:	Mon, 10 Mar 2003 16:16:02 +0100
From:	Tino Lange <tino DOT lange AT isg DOT de>
Organization:	IS Innovative Software AG
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Subject:	Re: cygpath "$@" in a script: bug?
References:	<Pine DOT GSO DOT 4 DOT 44 DOT 0303101001390 DOT 11568-100000 AT slinky DOT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Then you will call cygpath x-times, which is quite inefficient for large 
globbing with wildcards.

Better do something like

*** snip ***

#! /bin/sh
for file in "$@"; do
   memfile="${memfile:-""}$file\n"
done
<application> $(echo -e "$memfile" | cygpath -w -f -)

*** snip ***

which results in just one call via an in -memory file-list.

Tino


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