Paul <Paul.Domaskis <at> gmail.com> writes: > ...if I use xargs with cygpath, it doesn't [give expected results]: > > $dirs | xargs -n 1 cygpath -aw > > C:\cygwin\home\UserName\projects\project1\~\projects\project1 > C:\cygwin\home\UserName\projects\project1\~\projects\project2 > > Thanks if anyone can explain what I'm doing wrong.
Kenneth explained that "Tilde (~) is a shell shortcut, but you are bypassing the shell with $dirs | xargs, so it’s not expected to work". To avoid the tildes, I successfully used: $dirs -l | xargs -n 1 cygpath -aw Thanks, Kenneth! -- 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
