X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: cygpath -u doesn't seem to convert spaces properly Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:29:08 -0500 Message-ID: <297343D29C14AA4D822142893ABEAEF303BEA771@srv1163ex1.flightsafety.com> In-Reply-To: From: "Thrall, Bryan" To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id l8PNTKuo000832 Jerome Fong wrote on Tuesday, September 25, 2007 6:23 PM: > 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 WJFFM: $ cygpath -u "c:\Program Files\Java" /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Java $ ls "/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Java" j2re1.4.2 j2re1.4.2_04 jdk1.5.0_10 jre1.5.0 jre1.5.0_06 $ ls "`cygpath -u 'c:\Program Files\Java'`" j2re1.4.2 j2re1.4.2_04 jdk1.5.0_10 jre1.5.0 jre1.5.0_06 Can you give specifics on how it doesn't work for you? -- Bryan Thrall FlightSafety International Bryan.Thrall@flightsafety.com -- 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/