Using real paths in ash

[Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]]

Stephen Paul Weber wrote on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 9:39 AM:
> I really like the cygwin ash.exe, but I have a problem.  It tries to
> replace C: with /cygdrive/c everywhere.  This actually breaks my
> utilities, because they expect real Windows paths.  mkdir -p
> "$TEMP/t" for example ends up creating  
> C:\cygdrive\c\DOCUME~1\NEWUSE~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\t  ... which is
> obviously not what I want. 

man cygpath

Don't forget quotes, e.g.

$ mkdir -p "$(cygpath -u "${TEMP}/t")"

You should also read the documentation, specifically
UG:  http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.converting-paths
     http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.filename-spaces
In fact, I suspect looking through the UG and FAQ may head off 
other problems.