alias spss="spss $(cygpath -w $(pwd))\\" or something to that effect
Stephano Mariani > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Bacon, Ray > Sent: Friday, 22 February 2002 7 58 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Converting forward slashes to backward slashes > > I appologize in advance if there is an all too obvious answer to this > question. > > We have installed a statistical programing language called SPSS within > the CYGWIN environment. Programs run in this language execute without > any problems. However, the SPSS compiler isn't smart enough to > recoginize that you are trying to execute a program from within the > current directory. Therefore, on the flag that specifies the program > to run, you have to specify the entire path to that program file. > Fruthermore, it is necessary to use use \'s instead of /'s when > specifing the file name. > > Example > > spss -f C:\cygwin\home\frogpond\programname.sps > programname.lst > > > I have found a way using an alias to append the path of the current > directory to the -f flag. > > i.e. > > alias spss 'spss -f C:/cygwin`pwd`/' > > Then 'theoritically' all a person would need to do is issue the > following comand to run the program. > > spss programname.sps>programname.lst > > However as you may have noticed, my alias uses /'s instead of \'s for > the path. This is due to the fact that the `pwd` command returns a > path with /'s as seperators. This works great in dynamicly identifying > the current path. However, SPSS does not consider it a valid path, it > requires a \ style path. > > I am a new CYGWIN users. I have read that CYGWIN has some built-in > functionality to convert /'s to \'s. However, that functionality is > not passed through to a flag on an executable. > > Can anyone think of a way to append the current path to the file? > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
