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From: Paul <Paul DOT Domaskis AT gmail DOT com>
Subject: Re: Unexpected results: dirs =?utf-8?b?fA==?= xargs -n 1 cygpath -aw
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 18:14:29 +0000 (UTC)
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Paul <Paul.Domaskis <at> gmail.com> writes:
> ...if I use xargs with cygpath, it doesn't [give expected results]:
> 
>    $dirs | xargs -n 1 cygpath -aw
> 
>       C:\cygwin\home\UserName\projects\project1\~\projects\project1
>       C:\cygwin\home\UserName\projects\project1\~\projects\project2
> 
> Thanks if anyone can explain what I'm doing wrong.

Kenneth explained that "Tilde (~) is a shell shortcut, but you are 
bypassing the shell with $dirs | xargs, so it’s not expected to work".  To 
avoid the tildes, I successfully used:

   $dirs -l | xargs -n 1 cygpath -aw

Thanks, Kenneth!


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