On Feb 16 18:41, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
>
> >> >> >> 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 "${posix_path}" )
> >>
> >> > ?
> >>
> >> I appreciate the effort, bit this even MORE complicating the possible use
> >> case.
> >>
> >> Look, I'm asking for simplification without loosing functionality.
> >> If I NEED to check the path for existence, I would write something to the
> >> extent of
>
> > I'm getting a bit puzzled. If it's only the message you don't want,
> > then why not just send this message to /dev/null???
>
> Because the message serves no purpose in every use case I could think about.
> That, aside the fact it needs to create a redirection.
>
> > NATIVE=$(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. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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