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From: Kurt Franke <Kurt-Franke AT web DOT de>
Subject:  Re: environment variables derived from TMPDIR
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 23:46:59 +0000 (UTC)
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Hi Ralf,


Ralf Fassel <ralfixx <at> gmx.de> writes:

> 
> In a SHELL script I prepare a temp file to pass to some non-cygwin
> program:
> 
>     # TMPDIR is set to c:/temp outside of cygwin
>     # which translates to /cygdrive/c/temp inside cygwin
>     # prepare input
>     TMPFILE=$TMPDIR/foo.$$
>     cat > "$TMPFILE" <<\EOF
>     some stuff
>     EOF
>     # call program: error: no such file /cygdrive/c/temp/foo.1234
>     # filename should be c:/temp/foo.1234
>     external_program "$TMPFILE"
> 
> Now TMPFILE is passed to the external program using POSIX path
> notation which it does not understand.
> 
> If possible I'd like to avoid using 'cygpath' in the script since it
> should run on different platforms.
> 

you may check if the cygpath usage is valid before do it:

is_CYGWIN=`uname | grep CYGWIN | wc -l`
if [ $is_CYGWIN -gt 0 ]
then
  TMPDIR=`cygpath -w $TMPDIR`
fi
# continue with your code here


regards

kf





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