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On Feb 16 18:41, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > > >> >> >> I would like to request a small functional change for cygpath. > >> >> >> In the event of empty given path argument (i.e. `cygpath -ml ""') silently > >> >> >> return an empty result without error message. > >> >> >> This would greatly simplify wrapper scripts. > >> >> > >> >> > Why isn't redirecting the message to /dev/null not sufficient, something > >> >> > like this (bash syntax)? > >> >> > >> >> Because it'll require creating a redirection? And this kind of redundant > >> >> inserts blurring the code. > >> >> Returning a non-zero exit code would suffice for debugging purposes. > >> >> > >> >> > cygpath -ml "" >/dev/null 2&>1 > >> >> > >> >> Err, not > /dev/null !!! :D > >> > >> > dos_path=$( [ -n "${posix_path}" ] && cygpath -ml "${posix_path}" ) > >> > >> > ? > >> > >> I appreciate the effort, bit this even MORE complicating the possible use > >> case. > >> > >> Look, I'm asking for simplification without loosing functionality. > >> If I NEED to check the path for existence, I would write something to the > >> extent of > > > I'm getting a bit puzzled. If it's only the message you don't want, > > then why not just send this message to /dev/null??? > > Because the message serves no purpose in every use case I could think about. > That, aside the fact it needs to create a redirection. > > > NATIVE=$(cygpath -ml "$2" 2>/dev/null) And what's the problem with redirections? I fail to see the big difference between adding a redirection compared to adding an option character. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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