Greetings, Marco atzeri! >>>> I'm facing an unacceptable cygpath behavior related to the network shares. >> >>> Unacceptable? >> >> Exactly.
> Unacceptable seems a moral judgement, for this reason > I guess Peter is perplexed. >> >>> Perhaps your quoting skills and expectations fall >>> into that category... >> >>>> The testcase is: >>>> >>>> [\\DAEMON1\anrdaemon]$cygpath -u \\DAEMON1\anrdaemon\.profile >>>> //DAEMON1/anrdaemon/.profile >> >>> I think you mean cygpath -u \\\\DAEMON1\\anrdaemon\\.profile >> >> No, I did mean what I wrote. > What about a more clear explanation of what do you expect > to obtain ? Me? I expect to be able to use Cygwin utilities in Windows environment. As supposed to... to my best knowledge. > I have problem to understand your problem, > while Peter answer seems more obvious (to me). Problem is that path detection/conversion does not work for network paths. > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > In general the "\" is used as escape character so unquoted > it just preserves the next character > \\DAEMON1\anrdaemon\.profile > is equivalent to > "\DAEMON1anrdaemon.profile" Try it yourself, as well as what Peter tried to suggest (or "correct" me). Neither is working straight. Just for example: $ cygpath -u \\\\DAEMON1\\anrdaemon\\.profile /c/DAEMON1/anrdaemon/.profile Or, before we get lost, try to make this simple and widely used construction work straight: #! /bin/sh XXX=${XXX:=$(readlink -fn "$0")} XXX=$(dirname "$XXX") ls -l "$XXX" Cygwin, to my best understanding, is supposed to transparently accept native Windows paths. And, say, diff "%USERPROFILE%\.profile" "someotherprofile\.profile" works... as long as it's a local path (including mapped drives). Network paths break instantly. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 23.06.2011, <18:47> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
