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Date:	Sun, 16 Feb 2014 13:00:42 +0100
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Little cygpath improvement request
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On Feb 15 22:57, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
>=20
> >> >> I would like to request a small functional change for cygpath.
> >> >> In the event of empty given path argument (i.e. `cygpath -ml ""') s=
ilently
> >> >> return an empty result without error message.
> >> >> This would greatly simplify wrapper scripts.
> >>=20
> >> > Why isn't redirecting the message to /dev/null not sufficient, somet=
hing
> >> > like this (bash syntax)?
> >>=20
> >> Because it'll require creating a redirection? And this kind of redunda=
nt
> >> inserts blurring the code.
> >> Returning a non-zero exit code would suffice for debugging purposes.
> >>=20
> >> > cygpath -ml ""  >/dev/null 2&>1
> >>=20
> >> Err, not > /dev/null !!! :D
>=20
> >   dos_path=3D$( [ -n "${posix_path}" ] && cygpath -ml "${posix_path}" )
>=20
> > ?
>=20
> I appreciate the effort, bit this even MORE complicating the possible use
> case.
>=20
> Look, I'm asking for simplification without loosing functionality.
> If I NEED to check the path for existence, I would write something to the
> extent of

I'm getting a bit puzzled.  If it's only the message you don't want,
then why not just send this message to /dev/null???

  NATIVE=3D$(cygpath -ml "$2" 2>/dev/null)

> But if I (and the program that I would feed it to) don't care (which is o=
ften
> the case), the message printed from cygpath doesn't add to functionality.=
=20
>=20
> P.S.
> I've tried to rebuild it myself, but hit a roadblock.
> While trying to rebuild only winsup/utils, this happens

That never works.  Why don't you just fetch the source archive from
the last package and use the cygport file inside?


Corinna

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