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RE: "cygpath -w ." returns ".\" instead of "."
- From: "Trevor Baker" <trevor at alphatrade dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 12:14:34 -0700
- Subject: RE: "cygpath -w ." returns ".\" instead of "."
Okay point taken. Stupid trivial script aside...
Why does:
"cygpath -w ." return ".\" instead of "."
"cygpath -m ." return "./" instead of "."
And why does:
"cygpath -w dir" return "dir" instead of "dir\"
"cygpath -m dir" return "dir" instead of "dir/"
Shouldn't:
"cygpath -w ."
"cygpath -m ."
"cygpath -u ."
return "." in all three cases?
I don't understand the difference/reasoning.
thanks,
Trev
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Trevor Baker
> Sent: 01 July 2004 22:43
> the following
> trivial script:
Even a trivial script can have bugs in it!
> #----------
> #!/bin/sh
>
> BASEDIR=`cygpath -w .`
So here on line one, you're asking for a windoze-format path.
> FILE="$BASEDIR/out.txt"
And here on line two, you're concatenating a unix-style path to the
windoze-style path you previously asked for. That looks like a bug to me.
> touch "$FILE"
> #----------
>
> If you run this, $FILE is set to ".\/out.txt" which is not very unix
> friendly.
WDDTT!
cheers,
DaveK
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