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From: "Trevor Baker" <trevor AT alphatrade DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Bug: "cygpath -w ." returns ".\" instead of "."
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 14:42:46 -0700
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Hi,

If I execute these commands, I get these outputs:
$ cygpath -w .
.\
$ cygpath -u .
.

As you can see these commands return different values.

Now in cygwin this may cause problems elsewhere, such as in the following
trivial script:
#----------
#!/bin/sh

BASEDIR=`cygpath -w .`
FILE="$BASEDIR/out.txt"

touch "$FILE"
#----------

If you run this, $FILE is set to ".\/out.txt" which is not very unix
friendly.

Can I get a bug fix for "cygpath -w ." to return "." instead of ".\"?

I'm using the latest cygwin v1.5.10-3 on NT2k. Don't know cygpath
version...sorry.

Not too sure if this right forum, if not can someone please direct to
appropriate means of bug reporting.

Thanks,
Trevor Baker
AlphaTrade.com

trevor AT alphatrade DOT com
toll-free: 1-877-288-7799
tel: 604-681-7503x246
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