cygpath -m (and -w) sometimes emits multi-line names

[Larry Hall]

At 02:17 PM 2/20/2005, you wrote:
>Manipluating the result of cygpath -m with shell tools is needlessly
>difficult.
>
>$ pwd
>/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/defaults/profile
>$ cygpath -m `pwd`/bookmarks.htm | sed 's} }%20}g; s}^}file:///}'
>file:///c:/Program
>file:///Files/Mozilla
>file:///Firefox/defaults/profile/bookmarks.htm


Why not use this?


cygpath -m "`pwd`/bookmarks.htm" | sed 's} }%20}g; s}^}file:///}'



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