Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: semicolon colon separated env vars to unix and viceversa To: "Pavel Tsekov Cc: "cygwin" From: "Enrico Spinielli" Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 19:13:10 +0100 Message-ID: X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on CVDGWY01/S/EXT/MC1(Release 5.0.8 |June 18, 2001) at 08/11/2001 18:13:23 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 08/11/2001 18.54.42 ptsekov wrote: > > Ciao, Enrico > > You can try the "cygpath" utility to perform this task. > That is exactly what I did, but I had to decompose the list of path before using it... > Enrico Spinielli wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I wanted to transform my CLASSPATH env var settings (yes, I > > am using Java :-) from Windows format (semicoln-separated > > list of win paths) to Unix format (colon separated list of > > unix paths) and here is an excerpt of the script I have written: > > #!/bin/bash > > # change an env var from Windows format (semicolon separated) > > # to Unix format (colon separated) > > IFS=@ > > for i in ${1//;/@} > > do > > a=${a}:$(cygpath -u $i) > > done > > echo $a > > > > This works fine but I am wondering if there is something else > > given that PATH is automatically converted by cygwin... > > > > Any idea? > > bye > > Enrico -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/