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Date: | Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:51:53 -0700 |
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Jerome Fong wrote: > I am trying to use cygpath -u to convert my windows path to an unix path > in my shell script. However, it has problems with paths that has spaces > in it. For example, "cygpath -u c:\Program Files\Java" is converted to > /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Java, which doesn't work. Is there a flag > that I am missing? The unix version is correct but still has spaces, which means it still needs proper quoting. So if you are doing something like this: ls $(cygpath -u 'c:\Program Files\Java') then you are not quoting sufficiently. However, in your example below you appear to be using the proper amount of quoting: > $ cygpath -u "$(cygpath -m -s "c:\Program Files\Java")" > /cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/Java So please give us an example of exactly the command that fails, because there should never be a need to resort to using the 8.3 short filename ugliness -- especially since this is an optional NTFS feature that can be disabled in order to speed things up, which means it's not entirely portable (not to mention wholly unnecessary as long as proper quoting is used.) Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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