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Re: Little cygpath improvement request
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: m0viefreak <m0viefreak dot cm at googlemail dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 10:21:25 +0400
- Subject: Re: Little cygpath improvement request
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Greetings, m0viefreak!
> I'm not exactly sure what you are trying to accomplish with that patch,
> but it looks to me as if everything you want is already present:
> cygpath --help
> states
> -i, --ignore ignore missing argument
With "that patch", this option can be dropped altogether.
> which outputs nothing if you pass it an empty argument (or even without
> any further argument at all).
It provide no information at all in any event (be it missing argument, or
nonexistent path (not like it's checking for existence right now... which only
making situation more complicated)), requiring non-obvious, manually conceived
tests to ensure that the program operates orderly.
I should also add that the attach was unintended. Got a little mix-up here,
and the file slipped through cracks to the message.
> Isn't that ( cygpath -mli "$possibly_empty_var" ) what you need?
No, I didn't.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 16.02.2014, <10:10>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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