cygpath feature suggestion

cygpath feature suggestion

[Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)]

It would be useful if cygpath could work as a filter, taking in lists of
paths on the standard input and put them out one per line on the standard
output.  This could be used as a work-around for 
	for F in
`command_or_pipe_creating_a_list_of_files_with_spaces_in_them`
	do
		echo ${F}
	done
causing the file names to be split up at the spaces.

Yes, I know, PTC, but I'm not a programmer.  This is just a suggestion.

- Barry

Barry U. Buchbinder, Ph.D.
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Re: cygpath feature suggestion

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 12:34:58PM -0400, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote:
>It would be useful if cygpath could work as a filter, taking in lists of
>paths on the standard input and put them out one per line on the standard
>output.  This could be used as a work-around for 
>	for F in
>`command_or_pipe_creating_a_list_of_files_with_spaces_in_them`
>	do
>		echo ${F}
>	done
>causing the file names to be split up at the spaces.
>
>Yes, I know, PTC, but I'm not a programmer.  This is just a suggestion.

In this case, the only PTC required is for the documentation.  Take a look
at 'cygpath --help', the option already exists.  It is just not in the man
page.

cgf

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Re: cygpath feature suggestion

[Joe Smith]

>
> In this case, the only PTC required is for the documentation.  Take a look
> at 'cygpath --help', the option already exists.  It is just not in the man
> page.

I fail to see what he requested. What he wanted was like 'cygpath -pf -' 
except that instead of using colons to seperate the path list, newlines were 
used. I say this is probably a wontfix.

Use of "cygpath -pf -|sed s/:/\\n/g" works fine for me.

> cgf
> 



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Re: cygpath feature suggestion

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 04:29:22PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote:
>>In this case, the only PTC required is for the documentation.  Take a
>>look at 'cygpath --help', the option already exists.  It is just not in
>>the man page.
>
>I fail to see what he requested.  What he wanted was like 'cygpath -pf
>-' except that instead of using colons to seperate the path list,
>newlines were used.  I say this is probably a wontfix.

The OP didn't mention either the '-f' option or use the word "colon" in
his original email.

>Use of "cygpath -pf -|sed s/:/\\n/g" works fine for me.

It's not clear what you mean by "paths".  If you're expecting cygpath to
break up a UNIX PATH-like environment variable, then, using UNIX tools
to do this is the right way to handle it.  We're not going to add a
feature to cygpath to provide this simple function.

cgf

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