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Andrew DeFaria wrote:Agreed.Found out a funny thing about Cygwin today. I've known for a while that forward slashes works as well as backslashes when specifying a path to execute. So all of the following work from a cmd prompt:
C:> C:\Cygwin\bin\ls C:> C:\Cygwin/bin\ls C:> C:/Cygwin/bin/ls
Also the following works:
C:> C:\Cygwin\bin\ls | more
However the following fails:
C:> C:\Cygwin/bin\ls | more
It fails with something like "C:\Cygwin\bin not found" (From memory).
What does this have to do with Cygwin you say?
Nothing. This is cmd.exe's idiosyncratic command-line parsing behaviour.
Try quoting it:My personal solution was to change "/"'s -> "\"'s in the Perl function that I wrote to return the Windows oriented path to Cygwin's bin.
Yes, my Cygwin question would be why does it store "/" in the registry for what is obviously a Windows path?
For some reason (the presence of the pipe?) cmd.exe parses the forward slash as an options separator rather than a path component in one case but not the other. Quoting removes the ambiguity.C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>C:\Cygwin/bin\ls | more 'C:\Cygwin' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>"C:\Cygwin/bin\ls" | more Application Data Cookies Desktop Favorites Local Settings My Documents NTUSER.DAT NetHood PrintHood Recent SendTo Start Menu Templates default.pls ntuser.dat.LOG ntuser.ini schedlog.txt
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>
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