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On 03/18/2011 01:43 AM, Ralf wrote:
> I'm using cygwin under windows to change text-files with windows line-end=
ings=20
> (CR and LF). I wrote a lot of shell-scripts which call each other. The=20
> filenames in those scripts are sometimes given als windows filenames (e.g=
.=20
> c:\temp\file.txt) sometimes relative (e.g. ../tmp/file.txt) sometimes as =
unix=20
> filenames (e.g. /c/temp/file.txt) and sometimes without any directory (e.=
g.=20
> file.txt)
>=20
> The current versions of cygwin now only use entries from fstab to determi=
ne=20
> the mode but this will break all my scripts because the same file will=20
> sometimes be treated as binary (filename c:\temp\file.txt) and sometimes =
as=20
> text (filename /c/temp/file.txt).
>=20
> So is there a way to say 'use always textmode' like it was possible in fo=
rmer=20
> releases?

Use cygpath to convert the filename to POSIX style, so that you never
open a DOS path.

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Eric Blake   eblake AT redhat DOT com    +1-801-349-2682
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