From: richardd AT cix DOT compulink DOT co DOT uk (Richard Donkin)
Subject: Pathname conversion script
10 Dec 1996 13:20:38 -0800
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Since a few people showed interest, I am posting 'path2win', a perl script 
that converts Gnu-Win32 pathnames into ordinary Win32 pathnames.  I won't 
post any other scripts unless people are interested.  Typical usage is:

    win32prog `path2win /gnu/path //d/another/gnu/path`
    
which results in (assuming / corresponds to c: and //d to d:)

   win32prog c:\gnu\path d:\another\gnu\path
    
If a program can handle (and prefers) c:/foo/bar type paths, specify 
'path2win -u' for this format.

The main benefit is that you can keep all of your variables in Gnu-Win32 
format and use variable/filename completion in bash right up to the point 
that you invoke the Win32 program.  The problem is that perl can be a bit 
slow, but it would be very easy to rewrite this in sed.

The preamble will work on any Perl script to let you invoke Perl/Win32 
scripts from the bash command line.  The #! line is ignored since 
bash/Gnu-Win32 does not support it, though Perl will pick up any switches.  

Richard
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#!/usr/bin/perl -w

# -------------- Preamble to simulate '#!'

# Shell mode: Eval is needed to run Perl under Gnu-Win32 (which 
# does not support #!).  Perl will pick up any switches from 
# the '#!' line.
eval 'exec perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}' 
        if 0;

# Perl mode: Get rid of any -S switch - script cannot use -S as
# one of its own switches
shift if ($#ARGV >= 0 and $ARGV[0] eq '-S');

# -------------- Main program

# path2win: convert Gnu-Win32 pathnames to Win32 pathnames, 
# with drive letters and backslashes.  To retain /'s for 
# Unix-oriented Win32 tools such as Vim for Win32, use the '-u' option.
#
# Usage: path2win [-u] path ...
#
# Version 1.0, 10th Dec 1996    richardd AT cix DOT compulink DOT co DOT uk
#
# If you update this script, please email me your version!
#
# Assumes that /[a-z]/ or //[a-z]/ maps onto a drive letter
#
# Tested on Perl 5.001m build 110 for Win32 under Gnu-Win32 B17 on Win95,
# but should work on other platforms.  Note that Gnu-Win32 B16's pathname
# support is different to B17.

# *** You will need to edit this line if C: is not mounted as '/'
$rootdrive = "c:";

# Work properly with Gnu-Win32 and back quotes
binmode STDOUT;

if ($ARGV[0] eq "-u") { 
    $unixmode = 1; shift;
}

foreach $gnupath (@ARGV) {
    $_ = $gnupath;

    # Convert //D to d:
    s# ^//([a-z])$ #\L$1:/#xi ;

    # Convert //D/ to d:
    s# ^//([a-z])/ #\L$1:/#xi ;

    # Convert /D to d:
    s# ^/([a-z])$ #\L$1:/#xi ;

    # Convert /D/ to d:
    s# ^/([a-z])/ #\L$1:/#xi ;

    # Convert d: alone to d:/
    s# ^([a-z]:)$ #\L$1/#xi ;

    # Convert / to c:/
    s# ^/  #${rootdrive}/#x ;

    # Convert /'s to \'s unless in Unix mode
    s# / #\\#gx unless $unixmode;

    print; print "\n";
}

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