Greetings, Eliot Moss!
> Dealing with "odd" characters like \ and such can be a pain, huh?
> Perhaps it will help you to know that bash will expand variables
> inside double-quoted arguments, i.e., "${src}". (You can write
> "$src" if you want, but over the years I am finding it clearer /
> better to use the { } to make clear the name of the variable I
> want expanded.)
> Also, you may find the cygpath utility helpful, and the $( ) idiom
> of bash.
It isn't "idiom of bash", it is a POSIX construction.
> Thus:
> robocopy /s "$(cygpath -w /cygdrive/c/Users/siegfriend/Documents/bin)"
> "$(cygpath -w
> /cygdrive/f/backup/unison/bin)"
> I believe this will do what you want. cygpath can be very helpful
> hen you desire to run a Windows program from the cygwin environment.
I would suggest cygpath -m.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Wednesday, September 30, 2015 22:26:55
Sorry for my terrible english...
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