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Date: | Fri, 29 May 2009 15:43:14 -0400 |
From: | Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: cygpath -a anomaly |
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On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 03:20:28PM -0400, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >With cygdrive prefix = /, from the root directory of a drive (e.g., >/c = c:\ or /h = h:\), when asking for the absolute unix path with -au, >cygpath doubles the / between the drive letter and the first directory >of the path. > > /h> echo Home | cygpath -au -f - > /h//Home > /h> echo Home | cygpath -aw -f - > h:\Home > >This does not happen when one is not in the root directory of the drive. > > /h> cd Home > /h/Home> echo cartoons | cygpath -au -f - > /h/Home/cartoons > /h/Home> echo cartoons | cygpath -aw -f - > h:\Home\cartoons > >This does not happen when > > /h> cd .. > /h> echo Home\\cartoons | cygpath -au -f - > /h//Home/cartoons > /h> echo Home/cartoons | cygpath -aw -f - > h:\Home\cartoons > >This is with cygwin 1.5, everything up to date. Note that this also >happens on C:. Cygwin is in c:\\cygwin. Not much is going to be done about this now. This seems to work fine on Cygwin 1.7. cgf -- 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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