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Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 10:04:38 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: cygpath "$@" in a script: bug?
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On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Ralf Hauser wrote:

> 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)?

Yes, it needs the newlines (LF is enough, I think).
But if you have the arguments properly quoted already, why not
'for f in "$@"; do cygpath -w "$f"; done'?
	Igor

> 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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