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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:59:11 -0700
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Subject: Re: Using real paths in ash
From: Stephen Paul Weber <singpolyma AT singpolyma DOT net>
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On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 06:50, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
<BBuchbinder AT niaid DOT nih DOT gov> wrote:
> Stephen Paul Weber wrote on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 9:39 AM:
>> I really like the cygwin ash.exe, but I have a problem. =C2=A0It tries to
>> replace C: with /cygdrive/c everywhere. =C2=A0This actually breaks my
>> utilities, because they expect real Windows paths. =C2=A0mkdir -p
>> "$TEMP/t" for example ends up creating
>> C:\cygdrive\c\DOCUME~1\NEWUSE~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\t =C2=A0... which is
>> obviously not what I want.
>
> man cygpath
>
> Don't forget quotes, e.g.
>
> $ mkdir -p "$(cygpath -u "${TEMP}/t")"

Ok, I'm aware of cygpath, but the question was how can I actually fix
the problem.  See, I want to use it as a shell script interpreter on
Windows, and if I throw cygpath calls all over my shell scripts, then
they won't run on UNIX anymore.

I've been poking at the ash and pdksh code to see if I can figure out
at what point this broken behaviour gets introduced, but so far no
luck with finding it or with compiling either of them.

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