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From: Jerome Fong <jfong@successmetricsinc.com>
Subject:  cygpath -u  doesn't seem to convert spaces properly
Date:  Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:23:21 -0700
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I am trying to use cygpath -u to convert my windows path to an unix path 
in my shell script.  However, it has problems with paths that has spaces 
in it.  For example, "cygpath -u c:\Program Files\Java" is converted to
/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Java, which doesn't work.  Is there a flag 
that I am missing?

I came up with the following, but it seems wrong.

$ cygpath -u "$(cygpath -m -s "c:\Program Files\Java")"
/cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/Java

Thanks,

Jerome


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