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From: "Richardson, Anthony M." <ar63 AT evansville DOT edu>
To: "'Bernard Dautrevaux'" <Dautrevaux AT microprocess DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: backslash and backslash backslash
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 11:52:24 -0600 
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Umm.  I don't think piping into read works
either.  (At least it doesn't for me.)  I think
it is because you set the variable in a subshell
but not in the parent shell where you need it.

Use
  mypath=$(cygpath -was $1)
or
  mypath=`cygpath -was $1`
instead.

Regards,
Tony Richardson


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bernard Dautrevaux [mailto:Dautrevaux AT microprocess DOT com]
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 11:25 AM
> To: 'Wilson Farrell'; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: RE: backslash and backslash backslash
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Wilson Farrell [mailto:wfarrell AT bbn DOT com]
> > Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 5:56 PM
> > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> > Subject: backslash and backslash backslash
> > 
> > 
> > In an attempt to access Netscape's sendto from cygwin I 
> > created a simple
> > script:
> > 
> > sendto.sh
> > -------
> > #!/bin/bash
> > 
> > /usr/bin/cygpath.exe -aw $1; read mypath
> > 
> > /cygdrive/c/Apps/Netscape/Program/sendto32.exe $mypath
> 
> I'd rather try:
> 
> 	/cygdrive/c/Apps/Netscape/Program/sendto32.exe 
> `/usr/bin/cygpath.exe
> -aw $1`
> 
> but in any case you should use:
> 
> 	/usr/bin/cygpath.exe -aw $1 | read mypath
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Bernard

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