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Subject: semicolon colon separated env vars to unix and viceversa
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From: "Enrico Spinielli" <Enrico DOT Spinielli AT marconi DOT com>
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:47:59 +0100
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Hi,
I wanted to transform my CLASSPATH env var settings (yes, I
am using Java :-) from Windows format (semicoln-separated
list of win paths) to Unix format (colon separated list of
unix paths) and here is an excerpt of the script I have written:
     #!/bin/bash
     # change an env var from Windows format (semicolon separated)
     # to Unix format (colon separated)
     IFS=@
     for i in ${1//;/@}
     do
          a=${a}:$(cygpath -u $i)
     done
     echo $a

This works fine but I am wondering if there is something else
given that PATH is automatically converted by cygwin...

Any idea?
bye
Enrico


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