X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_YG,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Rolf Campbell Subject: Re: Strange cygpath behavior. Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:49:16 -0400 Lines: 10 Message-ID: References: <73619422.20110621092310@mtu-net.ru> <4E00321A.30105@lysator.liu.se> <92658329.20110623165230@mtu-net.ru> <4E03492D.40109@gmail.com> <1144668147.20110623190534@mtu-net.ru> <4E035F46.7000207@gmail.com> <1291997550.20110623220605@mtu-net.ru> <4E045008.7030607@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 In-Reply-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 On 2011-06-24 11:44, Fahlgren, Eric wrote: > Marco atzeri wrote: >> you are right, but it is not very useful to translate a windows path in a >> windows path ... > > On the contrary, it is exceedingly useful to be able to transform long names (with spaces) into short-form names without spaces. > > $ cygpath -sm "$PROGRAMFILES" That is only useful on systems that have 8.3 filenames enabled. -- 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