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Re: Strange cygpath behavior.
- From: Peter Rosin <peda at lysator dot liu dot se>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 07:54:34 +0200
- Subject: Re: Strange cygpath behavior.
- References: <73619422.20110621092310@mtu-net.ru>
Den 2011-06-21 07:23 skrev Andrey Repin:
> Greetings, All!
Hi!
> I'm facing an unacceptable cygpath behavior related to the network shares.
Unacceptable? Perhaps your quoting skills and expectations fall
into that category...
> The testcase is:
>
> [\\DAEMON1\anrdaemon]$cygpath -u \\DAEMON1\anrdaemon\.profile
> //DAEMON1/anrdaemon/.profile
I think you mean cygpath -u \\\\DAEMON1\\anrdaemon\\.profile
> [\\DAEMON1\anrdaemon]$cygpath -m \\DAEMON1\anrdaemon\.profile
> //DAEMON1/anrdaemon/.profile
I think you mean cygpath -m //DAEMON1/anrdaemon/.profile
(-m expects posix path arguments)
> [\\DAEMON1\anrdaemon]$cygpath -lm \\DAEMON1\anrdaemon\.profile
> //DAEMON1/anrdaemon/.profile
I think you mean cygpath -lm //DAEMON1/anrdaemon/.profile
> [\\DAEMON1\anrdaemon]$cygpath -u "\\DAEMON1\anrdaemon\.profile"
> /DAEMON1/anrdaemon/.profile
I think you mean cygpath -u "\\\\DAEMON1\\anrdaemon\\.profile"
> [\\DAEMON1\anrdaemon]$cygpath -m "\\DAEMON1\anrdaemon\.profile"
> ///DAEMON1/anrdaemon/.profile
I think you mean cygpath -m "//DAEMON1/anrdaemon/.profile"
> [\\DAEMON1\anrdaemon]$cygpath -lm "\\DAEMON1\anrdaemon\.profile"
> ///DAEMON1/anrdaemon/.profile
I think you mean cygpath -lm "//DAEMON1/anrdaemon/.profile"
> Only unquoted path producing usable results, but it's not realistically
> imaginable I would let it run this way.
> One day I will sure meet a file with "]" in it's name, and the surrounding
> environment will break. Or, even simpler, I'll hit a filename with spaces...
>
> This issue arising in different places of cygwin (originally I got nailed by
> it when trying to run diff across my now-network profile folder). cygpath is
> just a closest example I could reach for this message.
Cheers,
Peter
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