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From: "Karr, David" <david DOT karr AT cacheflow DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: semicolon colon separated env vars to unix and viceversa
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 09:52:46 -0800 
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Just use "cygpath -p -u $CLASSPATH".  That does everything you're trying to
do here.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Enrico Spinielli [mailto:Enrico DOT Spinielli AT marconi DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 9:48 AM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: semicolon colon separated env vars to unix and viceversa
> 
> 
> 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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