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Direct/efficient way to chop off trailing \n
- From: Paul.Domaskis <Paul dot Domaskis at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 21:52:10 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Direct/efficient way to chop off trailing \n
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Running bash in a Windows environment, I often find the need to
generate a full Windows path to a file so that I can access the file
from a Windows app.
If I use
cygpath -aw TheFile > /dev/clipboard
I can paste into the Windows file-opener without browsing. Also, I
don't need to mouse around to highlight the result of cygpath.
However, the clipboard always contains an invisible carriage return,
which I have to remove by pressing backspacing. This doesn't visibly
change anything, but it does remove the trailing \n which chokes up
Windows.
Since I hate manually deleting stuff that I can't see, the most
efficient way around this seems to be:
cygpath -aw | tr -d '\n' > /dev/clipboard
This is starting to get longer and longer. It is comprising the whole
goal of getting a sequence of operations that is so brief that one
does not sigh at having to do it countless times.
Is there a more succinct way to get a clean path for a file from the
bash shell into the Windows clipboard?
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