Running bash in a Windows environment, I often find the need to generate a full Windows path to a file so that I can access the file from a Windows app.
If I use cygpath -aw TheFile > /dev/clipboard I can paste into the Windows file-opener without browsing. Also, I don't need to mouse around to highlight the result of cygpath. However, the clipboard always contains an invisible carriage return, which I have to remove by pressing backspacing. This doesn't visibly change anything, but it does remove the trailing \n which chokes up Windows. Since I hate manually deleting stuff that I can't see, the most efficient way around this seems to be: cygpath -aw | tr -d '\n' > /dev/clipboard This is starting to get longer and longer. It is comprising the whole goal of getting a sequence of operations that is so brief that one does not sigh at having to do it countless times. Is there a more succinct way to get a clean path for a file from the bash shell into the Windows clipboard? -- 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
