Re: Path conversion issue

["Larry Hall \(Cygwin\)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>]

On 8/17/2010 2:58 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Csaba Raduly!
>
> > > > diff.exe -cdb -x "CVS" -x ".svn" -I "\$Id.*\$" --strip-trailing-cr --
> > > > "C:\...\php-tools\GalleryClass.php"
> > > > "\\REMOTE\C$\...\php-tools\GalleryClass.php"
> > > > diff: \REMOTE\C$\...\php-tools\GalleryClass.php: No such file or directory
> > > >
> > > > Why it ate the leading backslash?
> > >
> > > '\' is a escape character for Cygwin just the way it is in UNIX/Linux.
> > > You either need to escape it or, better yet, use forward slashes.
>
> Neither is possible without sophisticated wrapper... This is called from menu
> entry in FAR Manager.
> :( I'd, however, try to get this through as a feature request...
>
> > Or protect the backslashes: use single quotes
>
> > '\\REMOTE\C$\...\php-tools\GalleryClass.php'
>
> Unfortunatelly...
>
> diff.exe -cdb -x "CVS" -x ".svn" -I "\$Id.*\$" --strip-trailing-cr -- '\\REMOTE\C$\...\GalleryClass.php' 'C:\...\GalleryClass.php'
> diff: \REMOTE\C$\...\GalleryClass.php: No such file or directory

Seems like if you can change the quotes, you're very close to being
able to invoke 'cygpath' to do the conversion you need.  Since I know
nothing about Far Manager, I don't know if this is a small step or a
huge leap.  But I figured I'd through it out there.

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