X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:58:42 +0400 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: Andrey Repin Message-ID: <1236947283.20100817225842@mtu-net.ru> To: Csaba Raduly , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Path conversion issue In-Reply-To: References: <1443726680.20100817060325@mtu-net.ru> <4C69FF69.3060402@cygwin.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Greetings, Csaba Raduly! >>> diff.exe -cdb -x "CVS" -x ".svn" -I "\$Id.*\$" --strip-trailing-cr -- >>> "C:\...\php-tools\GalleryClass.php" >>> "\\REMOTE\C$\...\php-tools\GalleryClass.php" >>> diff: \REMOTE\C$\...\php-tools\GalleryClass.php: No such file or directory >>> >>> Why it ate the leading backslash? >> >> '\' is a escape character for Cygwin just the way it is in UNIX/Linux. >> You either need to escape it or, better yet, use forward slashes. Neither is possible without sophisticated wrapper... This is called from menu entry in FAR Manager. :( I'd, however, try to get this through as a feature request... > Or protect the backslashes: use single quotes > '\\REMOTE\C$\...\php-tools\GalleryClass.php' Unfortunatelly... diff.exe -cdb -x "CVS" -x ".svn" -I "\$Id.*\$" --strip-trailing-cr -- '\\REMOTE\C$\...\GalleryClass.php' 'C:\...\GalleryClass.php' diff: \REMOTE\C$\...\GalleryClass.php: No such file or directory -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 17.08.2010, <22:48> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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