On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 12:01 AM, yuanyun.ken wrote: > Is there a way to use backslash directly as path delimiter on cygwin?
Sure. As far as I know, any program which uses the cygwin path processing functions will understand backslash-delimited paths; even if you find one that doesn't, you can translate for it with cygpath, which does. The trick is that backslash is a special quote character in bash (and other UNIX shells), so that when you type cd d:\dira\dirb what the cd command sees is "d:diradirb". Even if it assumed that there were backslashes in there that got eaten, it would have no idea where to put them. The double-backslash solution you've already found is inconvenient for copy and paste; a more paste-friendly solution is to use single quotation marks around the whole path: cd 'd:\dira\dirb' If you find an odd command that doesn't understand backslash-delimited path names, combine the single quotes with cygpath: oddcmd "$( cygpath 'd:\dira\dirb' )" -- Mark J. Reed <markjr...@gmail.com> -- 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/
