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Subject: RE: Is it possible to convert from dos to unix path and back?
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:43:06 -0800
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry Kelly
> 
> R. Lewis wrote:
> 
> > Some of the commands we "launch" from a cygwin bash shell only
> understand the Dos path convention. Is
> > there a "conversion" command I can call to go from a Unix path 
> 
> cygpath

Since this is a common hassle for a lot of people, in my .bashrc I have
this:

alias cpw='cygpath -w'

So when I want to launch such a program I can do this:

vi `cpw ~/.bashrc`

(my 'vi' is an alias to SlickEdit which, of couse, has this problem).

Ian




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