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Date:	Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:42:31 -0500
From:	"Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Little cygpath improvement request
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On 2/14/2014 1:22 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, All!
>
> I would like to request a small functional change for cygpath.
> In the event of empty given path argument (i.e. `cygpath -ml ""') silently
> return an empty result without error message.
> This would greatly simplify wrapper scripts.

Why isn't redirecting the message to /dev/null not sufficient, something
like this (bash syntax)?

cygpath -ml ""  >/dev/null 2&>1


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Larry

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
 >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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