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Path name conversions, Posix <-> Win32
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- Subject: Path name conversions, Posix <-> Win32
- From: "Mark Hadfield" <m dot hadfield at niwa dot cri dot nz>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 10:22:09 +1300
Where can I find command-line utilities for conversion between Cygwin32
Posix-style and Win32 path names? Eg, a pair of utilities that work like
this:
bash$ echo //C/foo | win32path
C:\foo
bash$ echo C:\\foo | posixpath
//C/foo
I know it's not too difficult to implement this via string substitution in
awk or bash. (The above examples are real output, produced by a pair of
Python scripts that I wrote.) What I really want is something that knows
about Cygwin32 mounts, eg:
bash$ mount D: /cdrom
bash$ echo D:\\foo | posixpath
/cdrom/foo
bash$ echo /cdrom/foo | win32path
D:\foo
Obviously this functionality is built into Cygwin32, but I don't know of any
simple way to access it at the command line.
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Mark Hadfield, m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research
PO Box 14-901, Wellington, New Zealand
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