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On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Keith Christian
<keith1christ...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This function echoes the present directory to the clipboard, so that I
> don't have to enter the path manually.
>
> I use this function in a script that sources when a bash shell is
> started. Also echoes the path to the terminal for verification.
> Handy for pasting directly into windows file dialogs.
>
> function xx() {
> DESCRIPTION="Copy the Windows drive/path/filename to the clipboard"
> cygpath -w "`pwd`"|tr -d "\012"|sed -e
> 's/$/\\/'|putclip;echo;getclip;echo
> }
>
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Jim Garrison <j...@jhmg.net> wrote:
>> On 10/1/2014 2:52 PM, Paul.Domaskis wrote:
>>> 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.
>> [snip]
>>>... but it does remove the trailing \n which chokes up
>>> Windows.
>>
>> Sounds like cygpath needs a "-n" option which eliminates the
>> trailing newline.
>>
>>
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