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From: Shankar Unni <shankarunni@netscape.net>
Subject: Re: Path Errors
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 19:12:54 -0800
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Anjali Bharat Shah wrote:


> for i in ${REI_HOME}/lib/*.jar ; do
>     if [ "$CP" != "" ]; then
>   
>       #CP=${CP}:$i
>        CP="cygpath -w -p $i:${CP}"

Ooh, that's a bad idea, because you're now mixing windows and posix 
paths (remember, CP is in Windows form, while $i is in posix form).

Better to accumulate the entire path in the normal way (CP="$i:$CP") in 
the loop, and then at the end, do a single CP=`cygpath -w -p "$CP"`.

>  
>    else
>  
>        CP="cygpath -w -p $i"
>    fi
> done



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