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Re: Wanted: Help translating classpath from CMD.EXE to bash


On 10/31/2005, Siegfried Heintze wrote:
>As someone mentioned, you can use "cygpath -p" to convert a POSIX-style
>> path into a Win32-style one.


I think I need to go the other way. Given a CLASSPATH variable in windows, how do I convert it to cygwin? Do I use ":" to separate the elements, or do I use "\;". If I use ":", what about the windows device names?

It seems to me this should have worked, but it does not:
 * CLASSPATH=.\;c:\\dev\\xalan\\xalan-j_2_7_0\\xsltcservlet.jar\;others
 * export $CLASSPATH
 * echo ${CLASSPATH}
 * javac myprogram.java

If you're running from bash or any other Cygwin shell, then the path is already in POSIX form. 'javac' won't understand this, since it is a Windows program. 'cygpath' is the way to convert between POSIX paths and Windows/DOS, forward and back. In your case, you want POSIX->Windows/DOS conversion. See 'man cygpath' for more details.

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