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Subject: Re: cygpath and star character
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 07:18:30 +0100
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From: Sam Edge via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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On 15/07/2021 00:07, Tomas Jura via Cygwin wrote:

> Hi
>
> My use case is building the CLASSPATH environment variable for java.
> Like:
>
> export CLASSPATH="${CLASSPATH}${PATH_SEPARATOR}$(cygpath -w
> 'my/java/jar/directory/*' )"
>
> CLASSPATH can contain the star character at the end on Windows.
> Example C:\Apps\java\lib\* , which means something different then just
> C:\Apps\java\lib, ie. the star is necessary there.
>
> Tomas
>
>

So do:

export CLASSPATH="${CLASSPATH}${PATH_SEPARATOR}$(cygpath -w
'my/java/jar/directory')\*"

If you pass the asterisk to cygpath it will naturally consider it to be
a character in a pathname and give you the equivalent Windows path that
Cygwin would construct using the open() syscall. This is cygpath's
purpose, after all!

--
Sam Edge


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