X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 13:08:21 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygpath and spaces in filenames when reading from a file Message-ID: <20100107120821.GD23972@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <000801ca88a9$ec71c510$c5554f30$@com> <20091230120129.GA32652@calimero.vinschen.de> <20091230181849.GA17448@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20091230211511.GA21679@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091230211511.GA21679@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 On Dec 30 16:15, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 01:18:50PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 01:01:29PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>On Dec 29 17:11, Jon Beniston wrote: > >>>cygpath can read a list of paths to convert from a file, when started > >>>with -file. However, how do you specify paths with spaces in them in > >>>this mode? It seems quoting the path or using \ doesn't seem to work. > >>>E.g: > >> > >>No, it doesn't. Space is used as the field separator in the file. I > >>assume we need an extension like allowing to specify another separator. > >>Another one for next year... > > > >That's an option that I added. I am surprised that it is space > >delimited since I thought I intended to make it newline delimited. > > > >I'll take a look at it. > > The option processing was changed from the time I first added it. > AFAICT, at that point it did take one file per line. Now it breaks on > spaces. Hmm, the original code only recognized spaces if options_from_file_flag was given and the first arg started with a dash. I thought using argz processing would simplify things but apperantly it's overdoing it. I've fixed it in CVS. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple