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Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 10:52:13 -0400
From: Daniel Barclay <daniel@fgm.com>
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Subject: Re: How to get cygwin path
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Afflictedd2 wrote:
>
> Ok. nm...
>
> it has to be this way:
>
> cygpath -u "C:\Users\Viper\Tmp"

Using single quotes would be more general.  Consider the difference if
the pathname includes a substring like "\r".  (Backslash is inert in
(bash/sh/etc.) single-quoted strings, but sometimes escapes the following
character in double-quoted strings.


Daniel

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