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From: "Ralf Hauser" <ralfhauser AT gmx DOT ch>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: cygpath "$@" in a script: bug?
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 09:47:08 +0100
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in http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-01/msg01707.html I thought to
see how I should do this.
The example works fine. But if I create a script that does
the same

echo "$@" | cygpath -w -f -

and call it with

testscript `/bin/ls /bin/ch*`

I get

C:\cygwin\bin\checkgid.exe \bin\chgrp.exe \bin\chmod.exe \bin\chown.exe
\bin\chroot.exe

is it possible that it chokes upon missing newlines (CR/LF)?
Or even worse if I put in the long path:

testscript `/bin/ls /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/ch*`

cygpath: error converting "/cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/checkgid.exe
/cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/chgrp.exe /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/chmod.exe
/cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/chown.exe /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/chroot.exe"

or yet worse when I do that on my desktop with three test files a.txt,
aa.txt and aaa.txt:
rhauser AT PC:/<3>rhauser/Desktop>
testscript `ls /cygdrive/c/Docume~1/rhauser/Desktop/a*.txt`
c:\Docume~1\rhauser\Desktop\a.txt
\cygdrive\c\Docume~1\rhauser\Desktop\aa.txt
\cygdrive\c\Docume~1\rhauser\Desktop\aaa.txt

so the first path is converted properly while number 2 and 3 are wrong?

Any thoughts?

	Ralf


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