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Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 09:53:39 -0700
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Obtaining Actual File / Directory Names
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Hi,

Given Igor's fixed cygwin (or any subsequent release with that fix -- and, 
of course, the one about the missing newline from the end of the help 
output that I reported and Chris F. stated he fixed a few weeks back), one 
can obtain the "real" name of a existing file or directory (i.e., 
respecting actual alphabetic case) like this:

realCase() {
     cygpath -w -l "$(cygpath -d "$1")"
}


Example:

% touch "thisNameIsPrettyLongAndHasMixedCaseAndAFunkyCh&racter"

% realCase thisnameisprettylongandhasmixedcaseandafunkych\&racter
thisNameIsPrettyLongAndHasMixedCaseAndAFunkyCh&racter


Quoting and options are "exercises for the reader."

I can only confirm that this works as intended on a Windows 2K Pro (the 
only system to which I have access).


Randy 


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