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Subject: Re: "MS-DOS style path detected" triggered by escaped $ in path
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On Nov 26 10:44, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If I use paths that contain $ symbols, and backslash-escape them, I start
> seeing warnings about MS-DOS style paths in Cygwin bash.  For example, where I
> hit <tab> after the .ssh/:
> 
>     $ cp //pcname/C\$/cygwin/home/add/.ssh/cygwin warning:
>       MS-DOS style path detected: //pcname/C\$/cygwin/home/add/.ssh/
>       Preferred POSIX equivalent is: //pcname/C/$/cygwin/home/add/.ssh/
>       CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this warning.
>       Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths:
>         http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames
> 
> I believe the path I entered, //pcname/C\$/cygwin/home/add/.ssh/, is valid.
> The equivalent MS-DOS style path would be \\pcname\C$\cygwin\home\add\.ssh\.
> 
> This appears to simply be an erroneous warning; everything else I tried works,
> including tab-completion, calls to cp or ls or similar.

This is a bash problem, apparently.  In tcsh you'll never see this.  The
above message is printed by Cygwin's path handling.  That means, bash
has given the path to some POSIX function *with* the backslash included.

Evaluating escape sequences is not the job of the system functions, but
of the caller, so I'd expect that the path gets de-escaped by bash
before calling the system function, but that's apparently not the case.


Corinna

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