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Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 15:50:53 -0700
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Subject: Re: Direct/efficient way to chop off trailing \n
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On 10/1/2014 2:52 PM, Paul.Domaskis wrote:
> Running bash in a Windows environment, I often find the need to
> generate a full Windows path to a file so that I can access the file
> from a Windows app.
[snip]
>... but it does remove the trailing \n which chokes up
> Windows.

Sounds like cygpath needs a "-n" option which eliminates the
trailing newline.


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