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Subject:	Re: cd to directory in paste buffer : shell function
Date:	Fri, 13 Jan 2006 18:41:28 +0000
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On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:28:45 -0800,  wrote:

>On 1/13/06, zzapper <david AT tvis DOT co DOT uk> wrote:
>> I often want to cd to a (DOS) path that I've copied from some Windows App.

>
>The cygpath program will do the slash conversion for you:
>
>cdclipboard()
>{
>        unixpath=`cygpath -f /dev/clipboard`;
>
>        if [ -d "$unixpath" ]; then
>                cd "$unixpath"
>        fi
>}

echo "that's cute"
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