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Re: Is it possible to convert from dos to unix path and back?
- From: Barry Kelly <bkelly dot ie at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:57:51 +0000
- Subject: Re: Is it possible to convert from dos to unix path and back?
- References: <20503937.post@talk.nabble.com>
R. Lewis wrote:
> Some of the commands we "launch" from a cygwin bash shell only understand
> the Dos path convention since they are native window's executables. Is
> there a "conversion" command I can call to go from a Unix path to a Dos path
> and back?
>
> Example:
> Cygwin path: /cygdrive/c/'Program Files'/Prod123/something.dat
>
> After converting it becomes -> Dos path: c:\Program
> Files\Prod123\something.dat
cygpath
your/windows/program "$(cygpath -w "/your/path/here")"
-- Barry
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