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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
Subject: Re: Using cygpath with backticks
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 08:58:05 -0700
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In-Reply-To: <51C5C520.7070801@codespunk.com>

On 06/22/2013 08:39 AM, Matt D. wrote:
> Maybe I've just had a long week but I can't seem to get this to work:
>
> alias pathw='echo `cygpath -w "$@"`'
> pathw "/cygdrive/g/"
>
> I also tried:
>
> alias pathw='echo $(cygpath -w "$@")'
>
> cygpath just yells at me that I'm doing something wrong.
Try a real function:

$ function pathw {
 > echo $(cygpath -w "$@")
 > }
$ pathw /cygdrive/c
C:\
$

I don't think that $@ is evaluated in the context of an alias.

However, if all you are doing is echoing out the Windows path for a 
posix path then that's already what cygpath does. And the following also 
would work:

$ alias pathw='cygpath -w'
$ pathw /cygdrive/c
C:\
$
-- 
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Cranial-rectal inversion disorder - a condition where one's head is 
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