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From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]" <BBuchbinder AT niaid DOT nih DOT gov>
To: "cygwin AT cygwin DOT com" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Direct/efficient way to chop off trailing \n
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 13:12:11 +0000
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Eric Blake sent the following at Wednesday, October 01, 2014 10:33 PM
>On 10/01/2014 08:25 PM, Eliot Moss wrote:
>
>> You could write my solution as:
>>
>> echo -n `cygpath -aw foo`>/dev/clipboard
>
>'echo -n' is not portable (in fact, you can disable it in bash, and it
>may misbehave if cygpath outputs a leading - or contains any \); it's
>better to use 'printf' for that purpose:
>
>printf %s `cygpath -aw foo`>/dev/clipboard
>
>> The echo solution has the good property that echo is
>> a shell built-in and so does not require spawning
>> another process.
>
>The same is true of printf.

Converting \n line endings to \r\n might work for you when you paste
into a Windows app.  It does for me.

cygpath -aw foo/bar | putclip -d

- Barry
  Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.