Little cygpath improvement request
Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
BBuchbinder@niaid.nih.gov
Sun Feb 16 18:50:00 GMT 2014
Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Sunday, February 16, 2014 10:11 AM
>> > NATIVE=$(cygpath -ml "$2" 2>/dev/null)
>
>And what's the problem with redirections?
>
>I fail to see the big difference between adding a redirection compared
>to adding an option character.
Some of us avoid redirections because we do it so rarely that getting it
correct becomes a long experimental process.
But as an alternative to redirection, one can test for an empty path.
if [ ! -z "$2" ] ; then NATIVE="$(cygpath -ml "$2")" ; fi
- Barry
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