Wanted: Help translating classpath from CMD.EXE to bash

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 10/31/2005, Siegfried Heintze wrote:
> >As someone mentioned, you can use "cygpath -p" to convert a POSIX-style
> >> path into a Win32-style one.
> 
> 
> I think I need to go the other way. Given a CLASSPATH variable in windows,
> how do I convert it to cygwin? Do I use ":" to separate the elements, or do
> I use "\;". If I use ":", what about the windows device names?
> 
> It seems to me this should have worked, but it does not:
>  * CLASSPATH=.\;c:\\dev\\xalan\\xalan-j_2_7_0\\xsltcservlet.jar\;others
>  * export $CLASSPATH
>  * echo ${CLASSPATH}
>  * javac myprogram.java

If you're running from bash or any other Cygwin shell, then the path is
already in POSIX form.  'javac' won't understand this, since it is a
Windows program.  'cygpath' is the way to convert between POSIX paths and
Windows/DOS, forward and back.  In your case, you want POSIX->Windows/DOS
conversion.  See 'man cygpath' for more details.

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