Eric Blake sent the following at Wednesday, October 01, 2014 10:33 PM >On 10/01/2014 08:25 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: > >> You could write my solution as: >> >> echo -n `cygpath -aw foo`>/dev/clipboard > >'echo -n' is not portable (in fact, you can disable it in bash, and it >may misbehave if cygpath outputs a leading - or contains any \); it's >better to use 'printf' for that purpose: > >printf %s `cygpath -aw foo`>/dev/clipboard > >> The echo solution has the good property that echo is >> a shell built-in and so does not require spawning >> another process. > >The same is true of printf.
Converting \n line endings to \r\n might work for you when you paste into a Windows app. It does for me. cygpath -aw foo/bar | putclip -d - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.
