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From: | Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com> |
Subject: | Forward slashes in path and pipes |
Date: | Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:17:37 -0700 |
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Found out a funny thing about Cygwin today. I've known for a while that forward slashes works as well as backslashes when specifying a path to execute. So all of the following work from a cmd prompt: C:> C:\Cygwin\bin\ls C:> C:\Cygwin/bin\ls C:> C:/Cygwin/bin/ls Also the following works: C:> C:\Cygwin\bin\ls | more However the following fails: C:> C:\Cygwin/bin\ls | more It fails with something like "C:\Cygwin\bin not found" (From memory). What does this have to do with Cygwin you say? Well I recently had to figure out the Window's path for Cygwin's bin, actually /usr/bin and what I got back from the registry was something like D:\Profiles\<userid>\Cygwin<ver>/bin. Note that a default install of Cygwin included a path that included a forward slash. Of course what I was trying to do was a gzip piped to tar -tf -. To my utter surprise the forward slash caused this all to fail. Thoughts? -- Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com> Very funny Scotty - now beam down my clothes. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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