Randall, On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> Igor, Soren, > > At 16:36 2003-01-28, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Soren A wrote: > > > > > ... > > > > > > Or re-invent that wheel, your choice ;-) > > > Soren A > > > >Why, one doesn't have to be a "cygpath" guru at all! A little judicious > >application of sed, and you can turn a space-separated path into a > >colon-separated one. Which reduces the problem to the one already > >solved... ;-) > > > >Seriously, though, you could use something like > > "`/bin/ls /cdv/D/goodies/babe*.jpg | cygpath -w -f -`" > >as the argument. This should expand all the files. > > Did you try that? It doesn't work for me. Yes, I did try it. I think the problem might be with the extra quotes around the `` construct, and there are issues with quoting paths with spaces properly, but on the whole it does work: $ echo `/bin/ls /bin/ch* | cygpath -w -f -` C:\cygwin\bin\chgrp.exe C:\cygwin\bin\chmod.exe C:\cygwin\bin\chown.exe C:\cygwin\bin\chroot.exe $ cygpath --version cygpath (cygwin) 1.25 Path Conversion Utility Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Red Hat, Inc. Compiled on Nov 22 2002 > For one thing, I see no indication in cygpath's "--help" output that an > argument of "-" tells it to read a name or names to convert from > standard input. $ cygpath --help Usage: cygpath (-d|-m|-u|-w|-t TYPE) [-c HANDLE] [-f FILE] [options] NAME cygpath [-ADHPSW] [snip] Other options: -f, --file FILE read FILE for input; use - to read from STDIN ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -o, --option read options from FILE as well (for use with --file) [snip] > Nor will cygpath process multiple files (on the command line) in a > single invocation (as you seem to suggest below). > > >It would certainly be a good idea to add multiple filename capability to > >cygpath. If I have time over the next week, I'll submit a patch. > > Igor Note that I suggested *adding* such a capability... > And for this case and many similarly simple ones, "tr" will do. > Randall Schulz We all have our favorite tools ;-) Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/