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From: "Paul.Domaskis" <Paul DOT Domaskis AT gmail DOT com>
Subject: Re: Direct/efficient way to chop off trailing \n
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 23:10:50 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2014-10-01, Paul.Domaskis wrote:
> cygpath -aw foo | tr -d '\n' > /dev/clipboard

Gary Johnson wrote:
> Define a function in your ~/.bashrc.
> 
>     winclip()
>     {
>         cygpath -aw "$ <at> " | tr -d '\n' > /dev/clipboard
>     }
> 
> Then just execute
> 
>     winclip TheFile

Jim Garrison wrote:
> Sounds like cygpath needs a "-n" option which eliminates the
> trailing newline.

Eliot Moss wrote:
> echo -n $(cygpath -aw foo) > /dev/clipboard? 

Gary, I was hoping for a magic bullet code idiom so that I don't have
to haul around a growing .alias.bash file.  But I think your solution
might be the only one that significantly cuts down on the typing.

Jim, I think you're right.  cygpath could benefit a lot from a -n
switch to suppress the new line.  From google, however, it's actually
just li'l olde me that would benefit as no one else seems to have the
want for it.  So I can see why such a switch has never been developed.
It's probably only needed for cygwin users, as it is the *unixy crowd
that uses both Windows & *nix at the same time.

Eliot, your solution takes 2 characters less than mine.  If I want to
live without spaces aroud the "$(" and the ")".  Which I suppose I
could do, for 2 characters.....  I'm a bit enamoured of the linear
simplicity of my original pipeline, though.  Appreciate the other
perspective, though.

Thank you all.


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