On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Soren A wrote:
>
> > * yeah, am using AS Perl, that's because this is a piece of
> > a WSH script.
> > * what I'd like to end up with is a way to context|alternate-click
> > on any filename in MSWindows Explorer and place the filename as
> > *cygwin*, not the OS, will see it, on the clipboard. Anyone
> > already had a pass at this wheel?
>
> I was playing around with this because it seems like a handy idea.
> I use Cywin perl, but the differences shouldn't be very great. Anyway,
> I came up with the following oneliner that does what you mention above
> (passed %1 as a Windows filename, it copies the Cygwin version to the
> clipboard)
>
> c:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe -MWin32::Clipboard -e "my $f=quotemeta('%1'); chomp (my
> $c=qx!cygpath -u $f!); Win32::Clipboard($c);"
>
> If you install the following registry entries, you get a context menu
> for files and directories that runs this when selected. You should be
> able to save this as a .REG file and click on it to import the entries,
> you'd have to change the path to perl though.
>
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Directory\shell\CygPath]
> @="&Copy Cygwin Path"
>
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Directory\shell\CygPath\Command]
> @="c:\\cygwin\\bin\\perl.exe -MWin32::Clipboard -e \"my $f=quotemeta('%1'); chomp
> (my $c=qx!cygpath -u $f!); Win32::Clipboard($c);\""
>
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\*\shell\CygPath]
> @="&Copy Cygwin path"
>
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\*\shell\CygPath\command]
> @="c:\\cygwin\\bin\\perl.exe -MWin32::Clipboard -e \"my $f=quotemeta('%1'); chomp
> (my $c=qx!cygpath -u $f!); Win32::Clipboard($c);\""
>
> Brian
Umm, guys, aren't we getting carried away here? I mean, perl is a great
tool, but wouldn't something simpler, like
c:\cygwin\bin\bash -c "echo -n `/bin/cygpath -u '%1'` > /dev/clipboard"
suffice?
Igor
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