The test case I provided was a simplified version of what I intend to
use it for.
Andrew is correct in that '$@' is not evaluated in the context of an
alias and I would need to wrap up my intended alias in a function.
Thanks. I was having a brain fart there.
On 6/22/2013 11:58 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
On 06/22/2013 08:39 AM, Matt D. wrote:
Maybe I've just had a long week but I can't seem to get this to work:
alias pathw='echo `cygpath -w "$@"`'
pathw "/cygdrive/g/"
I also tried:
alias pathw='echo $(cygpath -w "$@")'
cygpath just yells at me that I'm doing something wrong.
Try a real function:
$ function pathw {
> echo $(cygpath -w "$@")
> }
$ pathw /cygdrive/c
C:\
$
I don't think that $@ is evaluated in the context of an alias.
However, if all you are doing is echoing out the Windows path for a
posix path then that's already what cygpath does. And the following also
would work:
$ alias pathw='cygpath -w'
$ pathw /cygdrive/c
C:\
$
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