Found out a funny thing about Cygwin today. I've known for a while that
forward slashes works as well as backslashes when specifying a path to
execute. So all of the following work from a cmd prompt:
C:> C:\Cygwin\bin\ls
C:> C:\Cygwin/bin\ls
C:> C:/Cygwin/bin/ls
Also the following works:
C:> C:\Cygwin\bin\ls | more
However the following fails:
C:> C:\Cygwin/bin\ls | more
It fails with something like "C:\Cygwin\bin not found" (From memory).
What does this have to do with Cygwin you say? Well I recently had to
figure out the Window's path for Cygwin's bin, actually /usr/bin and
what I got back from the registry was something like
D:\Profiles\<userid>\Cygwin<ver>/bin. Note that a default install of
Cygwin included a path that included a forward slash. Of course what I
was trying to do was a gzip piped to tar -tf -. To my utter surprise the
forward slash caused this all to fail.
Thoughts?
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Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
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