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Re: semicolon colon separated env vars to unix and viceversa
- To: "Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov" <ptsekov at syntrex dot com>
- Subject: Re: semicolon colon separated env vars to unix and viceversa
- From: "Enrico Spinielli" <Enrico dot Spinielli at marconi dot com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 19:13:10 +0100
- Cc: "cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
On 08/11/2001 18.54.42 ptsekov wrote:
>
> Ciao, Enrico
>
> You can try the "cygpath" utility to perform this task.
>
That is exactly what I did, but I had to decompose the
list of path before using it...
> Enrico Spinielli wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I wanted to transform my CLASSPATH env var settings (yes, I
> > am using Java :-) from Windows format (semicoln-separated
> > list of win paths) to Unix format (colon separated list of
> > unix paths) and here is an excerpt of the script I have written:
> > #!/bin/bash
> > # change an env var from Windows format (semicolon separated)
> > # to Unix format (colon separated)
> > IFS=@
> > for i in ${1//;/@}
> > do
> > a=${a}:$(cygpath -u $i)
> > done
> > echo $a
> >
> > This works fine but I am wondering if there is something else
> > given that PATH is automatically converted by cygwin...
> >
> > Any idea?
> > bye
> > Enrico
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