From: cyg Simple <cygsimple@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Why does robocopy confuse input and output files defined with Cygwin/bash and perl?
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2015 13:13:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <560D31A0.4030404@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7910682845.20150930222746@yandex.ru>
On 9/30/2015 3:27 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Eliot Moss!
>
>> Dealing with "odd" characters like \ and such can be a pain, huh?
>> Perhaps it will help you to know that bash will expand variables
>> inside double-quoted arguments, i.e., "${src}". (You can write
>> "$src" if you want, but over the years I am finding it clearer /
>> better to use the { } to make clear the name of the variable I
>> want expanded.)
>
>> Also, you may find the cygpath utility helpful, and the $( ) idiom
>> of bash.
>
> It isn't "idiom of bash", it is a POSIX construction.
>
>> Thus:
>
>> robocopy /s "$(cygpath -w /cygdrive/c/Users/siegfriend/Documents/bin)" "$(cygpath -w
>> /cygdrive/f/backup/unison/bin)"
>
>> I believe this will do what you want. cygpath can be very helpful
>> hen you desire to run a Windows program from the cygwin environment.
>
> I would suggest cygpath -m.
Not for robocopy, it is likely not to survive / instead of \. I would
prefix it with "cmd /c" though or perhaps create a bash script called
robocopy to do the path conversion before calling the Windows
robocopy.exe. That way the command line looks typical.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-30 14:54 siegfried
2015-09-30 15:07 ` Eliot Moss
2015-09-30 19:35 ` Andrey Repin
2015-10-01 13:13 ` cyg Simple [this message]
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