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Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 01:17:48 -0500
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On 2/16/2014 12:40 AM, m0viefreak wrote:
> I'm not exactly sure what you are trying to accomplish with that patch,
> but it looks to me as if everything you want is already present:
>
>    cygpath --help
>
> states
>
>    -i, --ignore          ignore missing argument
>
> which outputs nothing if you pass it an empty argument (or even without
> any further argument at all).
>
> Isn't that ( cygpath -mli "$possibly_empty_var" ) what you need?

Well, if you're actually going to look at the existing functionality
of 'cygpath' before jumping into a thread, you're going to take all the
fun out of it for the rest of us. ;-)

Thanks for pointing out the flaw in my original reply and for providing
an answer that I believe Andrey will appreciate.

-- 
Larry

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
 >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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