From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26298 invoked by alias); 1 Oct 2014 22:56:55 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 26288 invoked by uid 89); 1 Oct 2014 22:56:54 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-ie0-f177.google.com Received: from mail-ie0-f177.google.com (HELO mail-ie0-f177.google.com) (209.85.223.177) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 01 Oct 2014 22:56:53 +0000 Received: by mail-ie0-f177.google.com with SMTP id rd18so1378052iec.8 for ; Wed, 01 Oct 2014 15:56:51 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.42.188.70 with SMTP id cz6mr212487icb.19.1412204211317; Wed, 01 Oct 2014 15:56:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.50.224.164 with HTTP; Wed, 1 Oct 2014 15:56:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <542C854D.3050001@jhmg.net> Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 22:56:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Direct/efficient way to chop off trailing \n From: Keith Christian To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-10/txt/msg00016.txt.bz2 Looks like the cygpath line was broken in two, and the closing brace isn't visibile when reading in Gmail. Readers take note of that. On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Keith Christian wrote: > This function echoes the present directory to the clipboard, so that I > don't have to enter the path manually. > > I use this function in a script that sources when a bash shell is > started. Also echoes the path to the terminal for verification. > Handy for pasting directly into windows file dialogs. > > function xx() { > DESCRIPTION="Copy the Windows drive/path/filename to the clipboard" > cygpath -w "`pwd`"|tr -d "\012"|sed -e > 's/$/\\/'|putclip;echo;getclip;echo > } > > On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Jim Garrison wrote: >> On 10/1/2014 2:52 PM, Paul.Domaskis wrote: >>> 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. >> [snip] >>>... but it does remove the trailing \n which chokes up >>> Windows. >> >> Sounds like cygpath needs a "-n" option which eliminates the >> trailing newline. >> >> >> -- >> Jim Garrison (jhg@acm.org) >> PGP Keys at http://www.jhmg.net RSA 0x04B73B7F DH 0x70738D88 >> >> -- >> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html >> FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ >> Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >> Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >> -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple