On Jun 26 10:07, John Daintree wrote: > Hi, > > I’ve hit a problem with cygpath. Here’s a script: > > JD0=/cygdrive/d/obj/13.2.tmp/apl/win/32/unicode/winapi/dev/opt > JD=/cygdrive/c/src/13.2.dss/svn/misc/samples/tmp > > cygpath --version > > echo ...... > echo $(cygpath -up "$JD0:$JD:$JD:$JD") > echo ...... > echo $(cygpath -up "$JD0:$JD:$JD:$JD:$JD:$JD") > echo ...... > > > Here’s its output : > > cygpath (cygwin) 1.7.18 > Path Conversion Utility > Copyright (C) 1998 - 2013 Red Hat, Inc. > This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO > warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. > ...... > /cygdrive/d/obj/13.2.tmp/apl/win/32/unicode/winapi/dev/opt:/cygdrive/c/src/1 > 3.2.dss/svn/misc/samples/tmp:/cygdrive/c/src/13.2.dss/svn/misc/samples/tmp:/ > cygdrive/c/src/13.2.dss/svn/misc/samples/tmp > ...... > /cygdrive/c/ygdrive/d/obj/13.2.tmp/apl/win/32/unicode/winapi/dev/opt:/cygdri > ve/c/src/13.2.dss/svn/misc/samples/tmp:/cygdrive/c/src/13.2.dss/svn/misc/sam > ples/tmp:/cygdrive/c/src/13.2.dss/svn/misc/samples/tmp:/cygdrive/c/src/13.2. > dss/svn/misc/samples/tmp:/cygdrive/c/src/13.2.dss/svn/misc/samples/tmp > ...... > Note that the second call to cygpath has “mangled” the first element of the > returned path. The only difference between that 1st and 2nd calls to cygpath > is the length of the argument. > Note that changing the separator from : to \; doesn’t help – it still > mangles the return.
PEBCAK. You're not supposed to put UNIX paths into the function when using the -u flag. The path is inspected and potentially mangled on the assumption that this is a Windows path. This is necessary to support Windows paths of more than 260 chars. Having said that, I changed the behaviour of cygpath so that mangling is not performed when using the -p option since the mangling only works on single paths anyway. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
