On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 4:56 AM, himoundary wrote: > > I am working in a team where everyone else has a Linux/Mac OS X workstation, > but I have a windows workstation. Our project uses a shell script and a java > program to automate some deployment/setup etc, which needs to create some > directories of the sort /ABC/XYZ. > Obviously such paths are not valid in Windows. >
You spread falsities about Windows. Try the following in cmd.exe and you will be in a shock for your life. mkdir /ABC/XYZ > I was hoping if I executed these scripts from within a Cygwin terminal, the > problem might be solved (with /ABC/XYZ mapping to C:\cygwin\ABC\XYZ > > While the issue gets solved for the shell scripts, it does not for the java > program. I realize this happens because the Cygwin executes the very same > java.exe program which is installed on Windows (even though I selected > 'java' related packages for installation while installing Cygwin). Is there > a way to get the equivalent of the "native" javac and java programs one > would find on a typical Linux workstation. > You probably want to use the capabilities of cygpath for this and modify your script. -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd -- 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
