Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 11:15:29 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: aschwarz1309@att.net cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Moving to the Desktop In-Reply-To: <012420051241.23319.41F4ECDC000BAA6B00005B172160466648C7CFCCCE969D0E99080C9C0E@att.net> Message-ID: References: <012420051241.23319.41F4ECDC000BAA6B00005B172160466648C7CFCCCE969D0E99080C9C0E@att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, aschwarz1309 wrote: > 'cygpath -d' returns a Dos path. If you are executing in a Cygwin shell > you should retrieve a Unix path. Try: > [snip] Art, The flags recognized by cygpath are case-sensitive. Fergus was talking about the "-D" flag, which does indeed return the location of the current user's desktop in POSIX (Unix) form. His problem was, as many others have noted, improper quoting of the argument that contained spaces. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/