-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Brian Dessent on 4/11/2008 4:06 AM: | If you really want a Win32 path you need to use cygpath, e.g. | | echo $(dirname "$(cygpath -m "$0")")
Still not portable - what if the name contains two consecutive spaces, or starts with '-n'? This is even better: printf '%s\n' "$(dirname "$(cygpath -m "$0")")" - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkf/VYAACgkQ84KuGfSFAYCdegCgyNUt/uemzbO4SwrExehHQg4c OrwAoLL6MUS/Es/s0L3mfBEczdKlqJvi =p+jW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/