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 Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 16:43:46 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cygpath feature suggestion Message-ID: <20051003204346.GA16195@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <31DDB7BE4BF41D4888D41709C476B6575690BF AT NIHCESMLBX5 DOT nih DOT gov> <20051003164002 DOT GG2270 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 04:29:22PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote: >>In this case, the only PTC required is for the documentation. Take a >>look at 'cygpath --help', the option already exists. It is just not in >>the man page. > >I fail to see what he requested. What he wanted was like 'cygpath -pf >-' except that instead of using colons to seperate the path list, >newlines were used. I say this is probably a wontfix. The OP didn't mention either the '-f' option or use the word "colon" in his original email. >Use of "cygpath -pf -|sed s/:/\\n/g" works fine for me. It's not clear what you mean by "paths". If you're expecting cygpath to break up a UNIX PATH-like environment variable, then, using UNIX tools to do this is the right way to handle it. We're not going to add a feature to cygpath to provide this simple function. cgf -- 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/