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Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 23:53:39 -0400
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The test case I provided was a simplified version of what I intend to 
use it for.

Andrew is correct in that '$@' is not evaluated in the context of an 
alias and I would need to wrap up my intended alias in a function.

Thanks. I was having a brain fart there.


On 6/22/2013 11:58 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> 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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