Re: [Mingw-w64-public] path conversion in bash limitations

2020-01-07 Thread David Grayson
You could try cygpath: $ cygpath -w /tmp/infile1.txt C:\msys64\tmp\infile1.txt But that seems annoying. I might try using relative paths so no conversion is needed and your script can be cross-platform without much effort. You can use `cd` to navigate to a different directory before running the

[Mingw-w64-public] path conversion in bash limitations

2020-01-07 Thread David Mathog
In a mingw64 shell if one does something like: program -in /tmp/infile.txt -out /tmp/outfile.txt it will generally work because somewhere or other this will happen: /tmp/infile.txt -> C:\progs\msys64\tmp\infile.txt /tmp/outfile.txt -> C:\progs\msys64\tmp\outfile.txt That this works so w