On Feb 14 23:43, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Larry Hall (Cygwin)! > > > On 2/14/2014 1:22 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > >> Greetings, All! > >> > >> I would like to request a small functional change for cygpath. > >> In the event of empty given path argument (i.e. `cygpath -ml ""') silently > >> return an empty result without error message. > >> This would greatly simplify wrapper scripts. > > > Why isn't redirecting the message to /dev/null not sufficient, something > > like this (bash syntax)? > > Because it'll require creating a redirection? And this kind of redundant > inserts blurring the code. > Returning a non-zero exit code would suffice for debugging purposes. > > > cygpath -ml "" >/dev/null 2&>1 > > Err, not > /dev/null !!! :D
dos_path=$( [ -n "${posix_path}" ] && cygpath -ml "${posix_path}" )
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