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Date:	Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:06:47 +0100
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Subject:	Re: [1.7] bash UNC path bug?
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Shaddy Baddah wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> bash... maybe cygpath, seems to be doing something weird:
> 
> $ cygpath -u '\\someuncpath\someshare'
> //someuncpath/someshare
> $ echo `cygpath -u '\\someuncpath\someshare'`
> /cygdrive/c/someuncpath/someshare
> $ # what's going on here

  Dunno, but this sheds a little light into it:

> $ set -x
> 
> $ echo `cygpath -u '\\someuncpath\someshare'`
> ++ cygpath -u '\someuncpath\someshare'
> + echo /win/f/someuncpath/someshare
> /win/f/someuncpath/someshare
> 
> $ echo `echo '\\'`
> ++ echo '\'
> + echo '\'
> \
> 
> $

  How odd.  Something stripped a level of escaping even though it's inside
single quotes.  It's not cygpath, so it's probably bash.  It may be by design
for all I know, something to do with being in back-ticks; I haven't RTFMd yet.
 You can work around it by doubling up the backslashes:

$ echo `cygpath -u '\\\\someuncpath\\someshare'`
//someuncpath/someshare


    cheers,
      DaveK


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