From: "Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent)" <Kenneth.Nellis@conduent.com>
To: cyg Simple <cygsimple@gmail.com>,
"cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: cygpath (reprised)
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 14:03:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0D835E9B9CD07F40A48423F80D3B5A704BBEF6E6@USA7109MB022.na.xerox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a012307e-c235-8571-97e8-019719058366@gmail.com>
From: cyg Simple
> On 2/21/2017 1:22 PM, Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent) wrote:
> > I suppose one could argue that, by using -w, that cygpath might assume that it
> > is converting *from* a POSIX path, and therefore the colon would not indicate
> > a drive letter--wouldn't that make sense?--but I’ll let someone else take up
> > that battle. ☺
>
> I would almost agree except for the help description of the -w option.
> ...
Hmm. Not sure that I see that. From the man page:
The cygpath program is a utility that converts Windows native filenames to Cygwin
POSIX-style pathnames and vice versa.
I read this as converting one format to the other.
--Ken Nellis
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-27 14:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-21 17:22 Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent)
2017-02-21 18:05 ` Andrey Repin
2017-02-21 18:22 ` Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent)
2017-02-25 16:38 ` cyg Simple
2017-02-26 1:20 ` Andrey Repin
2017-02-28 19:56 ` cyg Simple
2017-03-01 13:20 ` Andrey Repin
2017-03-01 14:33 ` cyg Simple
2017-02-27 14:03 ` Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent) [this message]
2017-02-28 20:15 ` cyg Simple
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