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Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 12:40:02 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: cygpath feature suggestion
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On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 12:34:58PM -0400, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote:
>It would be useful if cygpath could work as a filter, taking in lists of
>paths on the standard input and put them out one per line on the standard
>output.  This could be used as a work-around for 
>	for F in
>`command_or_pipe_creating_a_list_of_files_with_spaces_in_them`
>	do
>		echo ${F}
>	done
>causing the file names to be split up at the spaces.
>
>Yes, I know, PTC, but I'm not a programmer.  This is just a suggestion.

In this case, the only PTC required is for the documentation.  Take a look
at 'cygpath --help', the option already exists.  It is just not in the man
page.

cgf

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