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From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed AT mail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: File path to URI
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You really should put double quotes around "$1".  Cygwin of all places
ought to be an environment that reminds shellscripters to do that...
:)



On 4/30/08, Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at> wrote:
> >  Has anyone seen a command line tool for converting path (e.g.
> /cygdrive/h/privat/news_alert.conf) to file URI
> (file:///cygdrive/h/privat/news_alert.conf)
> >
> >  Yes, tweaking with string concatenation or calling some java code would
> be a way, though I would prefer some proper command within the cygwin - bash
> domain.
>
>
> $ cat > fileuri <<EOF
> echo -n "file:///"; cygpath -m $1
> EOF
>
> $ ./fileuri ~
> file:///d:/data/URBANR/My Documents
>
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