You could write my solution as: echo -n `cygpath -aw foo`>/dev/clipboard
though the ` (backtick) notation is deprecated these days and $(...) is described as preferred. But for many little things like these I write bash functions (or aliases, when they work, which they don't here). The echo solution has the good property that echo is a shell built-in and so does not require spawning another process. You had complained about speed, so even though the echo approach does not seem to top you list for elegance, it might for performance :-) ... Best -- Eliot -- 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
