X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:reply-to:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=HwTcxyXkJWyHn0L/ PremNfrNL4TU0sfZJdEmm2kgOh0mf1jBM+gZbSsqYtuoLehAi+hlhGk9ISfpCm+h m/4XpGaZf6B/jKIGp5lwI+CfOJ7iuyu3XT9sLwCXg1Q2RL6KgjgglmtBkonEAQYN JCK/FjEVP5e7LZtW8gHCJ1HPVbI= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:reply-to:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=XE86rrMDqG7hqkIrIQqjzw IEt5U=; b=tHsetYD5p2XqeRSfh3L/r7UPZ9Kne/eq6d+jICydH0OUIZmJOk+KBp pDaocrv71JzsYgMQ+xyab4rPgjraOzViIImYyt/LreEZnRhe7IGtpvtWI85zLe3W 2VFXgxAmdUSzNhoWl8k9F0h+WiLvtqnYCrQzpD2vQ/FJiZrKDxc0I= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: vms173023pub.verizon.net Message-id: <52FE6397.5010105@cygwin.com> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:42:31 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Little cygpath improvement request References: <111910987 DOT 20140214222230 AT mtu-net DOT ru> In-reply-to: <111910987.20140214222230@mtu-net.ru> Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit On 2/14/2014 1:22 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, All! > > I would like to request a small functional change for cygpath. > In the event of empty given path argument (i.e. `cygpath -ml ""') silently > return an empty result without error message. > This would greatly simplify wrapper scripts. Why isn't redirecting the message to /dev/null not sufficient, something like this (bash syntax)? cygpath -ml "" >/dev/null 2&>1 -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple