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On 12/04/2011 13:36, Reini Urban wrote:
> 2011/4/11 Marc Girod:
>> Andy Koppe wrote:
>>> You should use the cygpath utility to translate Cygwin paths to
>>> Windows paths, rather than just changing slashes and prefixing with
>>> C:\cygwin.
>> OK. Done.
>> Now, my script will fork this for every argument...
>> Can I spawn a 'cygpath -w', put it in the background, and get it to read
>> stdin
>> and write to stdout through pipes?

A brief glance at the man page should discover 'cygpath -w -f-'

> cygwin perl has a fast API for path and mountpoint translation.
> 
> $ perldoc perlcygwin
> => Prebuilt methods

But this is probably a better solution :-)

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