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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:11:44 -0600
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According to Brian Dessent on 4/11/2008 4:06 AM:
| If you really want a Win32 path you need to use cygpath, e.g.
|
| echo $(dirname "$(cygpath -m "$0")")

Still not portable - what if the name contains two consecutive spaces, or
starts with '-n'?  This is even better:

printf '%s\n' "$(dirname "$(cygpath -m "$0")")"

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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