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Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 11:15:26 -0400
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Subject: Re: Making Unix like paths work when using java program from Cygwin
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
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On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Marilo wrote:
> The java aspect looks like a red herring as not relevant to the problem.
>
> You want to run a *nix shell script and presumably don't want to write your own bat file doing the same job.
>
> I'm probably missing something but given that there's cygwin, and it's a *nux script, what about just editing the script for your computer, amending the paths in the script, with  a find and replace, so /ABC/XYZ is replaced with /cygdrive/c/ABC/XYZ and running the script in cygwin.

http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU

Why invent that wheel when you have cygpath already to do the job?
And java isn't going to understand /cygdrive/c either.

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