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Subject: Re: Using cygpath with backticks
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
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On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 11:39 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 "$@"`'

I think all you want is

alias pathw='cygpath -w'

> pathw "/cygdrive/g/"
>

The result of this will then be

G:\

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