Space in PATH replaced with :?!

friedman_hill ernest j ejfried@california.sandia.gov
Wed Mar 28 08:12:00 GMT 2001


Use the "cygpath" path translation utility that comes with
cygwin. It's quite smart and can properly translate paths in both
directions, including nasty stuff like drive letters, UNC names, etc. 

I think Johan Niklasson wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On NT4 sp 4, cygwin 1.1.8
> I have a problem with my path getting distorted by tr and sed.
> I do not want to change my path to the old DOS-form~2
> 
> I wonder if there is some setting I have wrong, or do I simply have to
> live with this problem, as suggested by the FAQ?
> 
> My path shall look like this:
> 
> /bin:cygwin/usr/include:.:/usr/bin:/usr/lib:/Winnt/System32/:/Program
> Files/ESOE/Microsoft Visual Studio/Common/MSDev98/Bin:/Program
> Files/ESOE/Microsoft Visual Studio/VC60/bin.....
> 
> But after issuing this command in a tcsh 
> set path = `echo $PATH | tr : '\n' | grep -v "LM_"`
> 
> it looks like:
> 
> /bin:cygwin/usr/include:.:/usr/bin:/usr/lib:/Winnt/System32/:/Program:Files/ESOE/Microsoft:Visual:Studio/Common/MSDev98/Bin:/Program:Files/ESOE/Microsoft:Visual:Studio/VC60/bin.....
> 
> which gives me problems to use VS compiler.
>  
> Some of the setting I have is:
> CYGWIN=tty ntea ntsec
> TERM=ansi
> TERMCAP=C:\etc\termcap
> 
> If anyone has a solution this problem I'd be most grateful.
> 
> Best regards
> Johan Niklasson
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