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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 22:27:46 +0300
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru>
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Subject: Re: Why does robocopy confuse input and output files defined with Cygwin/bash and perl?
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Greetings, Eliot Moss!

> Dealing with "odd" characters like \ and such can be a pain, huh?
> Perhaps it will help you to know that bash will expand variables
> inside double-quoted arguments, i.e., "${src}".  (You can write
> "$src" if you want, but over the years I am finding it clearer /
> better to use the { } to make clear the name of the variable I
> want expanded.)

> Also, you may find the cygpath utility helpful, and the $( ) idiom
> of bash.

It isn't "idiom of bash", it is a POSIX construction.

> Thus:

> robocopy /s "$(cygpath -w /cygdrive/c/Users/siegfriend/Documents/bin)" "$(cygpath -w
> /cygdrive/f/backup/unison/bin)"

> I believe this will do what you want.  cygpath can be very helpful
> hen you desire to run a Windows program from the cygwin environment.

I would suggest cygpath -m.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Wednesday, September 30, 2015 22:26:55

Sorry for my terrible english...


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