Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 10:23:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Brian Dessent cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: example needed pls: `cygpath -c ' In-Reply-To: <3F02DA32.EAD1FC18@dessent.net> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Brian Dessent wrote: > [snip] > There's a couple of problems with it still, in the backspaces/quotes > department. Your .reg file installs the command: > > "%CYGROOT%\\bin\\bash -c \"echo -n `/bin/cygpath -u > '%l'`>/dev/clipboard\"" + NewLine > > When I run the command I get an error. The proper quoting is > > "%CYGROOT%\bin\bash" -c "echo -n `/bin/cygpath -u '%l'`>/dev/clipboard" > > You don't want to escape the double-quotes because they are there to > tell the windows shell to make all that stuff a single arg, after -c. > You need double quotes around the exe image in the off chance there's a > space in $CYGROOT. And there's the issue of the raw binary newline at > the end. The hexified version of that is > hex(2):22,25,43,59,47,52,4f,4f,54,25,5c,62,69,6e,5c,62,61,73,68,22,20,2d,63,20,22,65,63,68,6f,20,2d,6e,20,60,2f,62,69,6e,2f,63,79,67,70,61,74,68,20,2d,75,20,27,25,6c,27,60,3e,2f,64,65,76,2f,63,6c,69,70,62,6f,61,72,64,22,00 > > ---- > > Anyway, the Right Way (IMHO) to do this would be something like the > following: > > ----- copy_cygpath.c ----- > #include > #include > > int main(int argc, char **argv) > { > HGLOBAL hglbBuffer; > LPTSTR lptstrBuffer; > > if(argc != 2) { > // usage: copy_cygpath [win32 path] > return 1; > } > > hglbBuffer = GlobalAlloc(GMEM_MOVEABLE, (MAX_PATH + 1)*sizeof(TCHAR)); > if (hglbBuffer == NULL) { > return 1; > } > > lptstrBuffer = GlobalLock(hglbBuffer); > cygwin_conv_to_full_posix_path(argv[1], lptstrBuffer); > GlobalUnlock(hglbBuffer); > > if(OpenClipboard(NULL) == 0) { > // failure! > GlobalFree(hglbBuffer); > return 1; > } > > EmptyClipboard(); > SetClipboardData(CF_TEXT, hglbBuffer); > CloseClipboard(); > > return 0; > } > ------ Hmm, again, why not do the following? ----- copy_cygpath.c ----- #include #include #include int main(int argc, char **argv) { char res[MAX_PATH + 1]; FILE *clipboard; if(argc != 2) { // usage: copy_cygpath [win32 path] return 1; } cygwin_conv_to_full_posix_path(argv[1], res); if ((clipboard = fopen("/dev/clipboard", "w")) == NULL) { // failure! return 1; } fprintf(clipboard, "%s", res); fclose(clipboard); return 0; } ------ > $ gcc copy_cygpath.c -o copy_cygpath.exe -mwindows -luser32 > $ mv copy_cygpath.exe /bin > > Now your registry entry is just: > > "%CYGROOT%\bin\copy_cygpath.exe" "%1" > > or > > ------ > REGEDIT4 > > [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\CygPath] > @="&Copy LFN Cygwin Path" > > [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\CygPathLFN\Command] > @=hex(2):22,25,43,59,47,52,4f,4f,54,25,5c,62,69,6e,5c,63,6f,70,79,5f,63,79,67,70,61,74,68,2e,65,78,65,22,20,22,25,31,22,00 > ------ > > This has the advantage of loading a single process, rather than bash, > echo, and cygpath. You also eliminate the silly console window that > flashes open and then closes. FYI, "echo" is a bash builtin, so the only 2 processes loaded are "bash" and "cygpath". Also, you could use "run" to eliminate the console window (with one more process to load, of course). Igor > One might also want to change the C code to backslash escape spaces and > other non-[\w\d] characters. That way you could still work with the > long filenames at the command prompt. Alternatively you could have it > paste the path as '/path/with a/space' (with the quotes.) > Brian -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/