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From: Shankar Unni <shankar AT cotagesoft DOT com>
Subject: Re: Bridge between windows and Cygwin to use awk on windows files
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 09:51:56 -0700
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Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> You can already access all of your windows files with cygwin:
> - from within bash/tcsh/sh:
> 	$ cat /cygdrive/c/Temp/blah.txt | awk -e '...'

In most cases, you can directly refer to the Windows filename natively:

   $  awk -e "..." c:/Temp/blah.txt

No need for a "bridge". Remember to use forward slashes. The cygpath 
thing is useful in scripts (or if you want to normalize slashes), but is 
tedious to type at the command line each time.

The only exception that I know of is "tar", which treats (for its output 
file argument) "c:/path" as "/path on hostname c"..
--
Shankar.





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