Re: Converting Dos Slashes to Unix Slashes

[Larry Hall <cygwin-lh at cygwin dot com>]

At 03:10 PM 3/13/2004, you wrote:
>hi,
>I thought I'd write a simple script to allow me to cd to a DOS path
>that I had in my paste buffer, turned out to be tricky
>
>alias doscd='. doscd'
>#!bash
># doscd
># description : convert dos paths
>result=$(echo $1 | sed "s/\\\/\//g")
>\cd $result
>
>
>> doscd "c:\temp\fred"
>
>That more or less works but I have to quote the "Dos path" and it
>freaks out if a directory begins with a
>
>eg
>> doscd "c:\aaa\"
>Cannot find c:/aa/
>
>Cygpath hardly helps because I'd need to backslash (no gain)
>
>cygpath --unix C:\\cygwin\\bin\\cygwin.bat
>
>Any ideas?1?
>
>zzapper (vim & cygwin & zsh)
>--
>
>vim -c ":%s/^/WhfgTNabgureRIvzSUnpxre/|:%s/[R-T]/ /Ig|:normal ggVGg?"


How about:

cygpath --unix "C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin.bat"

?

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