Jerome Fong wrote on Tuesday, September 25, 2007 6:23 PM: > I am trying to use cygpath -u to convert my windows path to an unix > path in my shell script. However, it has problems with paths that > has spaces in it. For example, "cygpath -u c:\Program Files\Java" is > converted to /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Java, which doesn't work. Is > there a flag that I am missing? > > I came up with the following, but it seems wrong. > > $ cygpath -u "$(cygpath -m -s "c:\Program Files\Java")" > /cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/Java
WJFFM: $ cygpath -u "c:\Program Files\Java" /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Java $ ls "/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Java" j2re1.4.2 j2re1.4.2_04 jdk1.5.0_10 jre1.5.0 jre1.5.0_06 $ ls "`cygpath -u 'c:\Program Files\Java'`" j2re1.4.2 j2re1.4.2_04 jdk1.5.0_10 jre1.5.0 jre1.5.0_06 Can you give specifics on how it doesn't work for you? -- Bryan Thrall FlightSafety International [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/