RE: "cygpath -w ." returns ".\" instead of "."

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

Ugh, top posting...  Oh, well...

FYI, as a workaround, "cygpath -w ./", "cygpath -m ./", and "cygpath -u
./" should work consistently.

If you feel that the current behavior is a bug, feel free to submit a
patch to the code that does the transformation (in winsup/cygwin/path.cc,
the definition of path_conv::check).  See <http://cygwin.com/contrib.html>
for details.
HTH,
	Igor

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Trevor Baker wrote:

> Okay point taken. Stupid trivial script aside...
>
> Why does:
> "cygpath -w ." return ".\" instead of "."
> "cygpath -m ." return "./" instead of "."
>
> And why does:
> "cygpath -w dir" return "dir" instead of "dir\"
> "cygpath -m dir" return "dir" instead of "dir/"
>
> Shouldn't:
> "cygpath -w ."
> "cygpath -m ."
> "cygpath -u ."
>
> return "." in all three cases?
>
> I don't understand the difference/reasoning.
>
> thanks,
> Trev
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Trevor Baker
> > Sent: 01 July 2004 22:43
>
> > the following
> > trivial script:
>
>   Even a trivial script can have bugs in it!
>
> > #----------
> > #!/bin/sh
> >
> > BASEDIR=`cygpath -w .`
>
>   So here on line one, you're asking for a windoze-format path.
>
> > FILE="$BASEDIR/out.txt"
>
>   And here on line two, you're concatenating a unix-style path to the
> windoze-style path you previously asked for.  That looks like a bug to me.
>
> > touch "$FILE"
> > #----------
> >
> > If you run this, $FILE is set to ".\/out.txt" which is not very unix
> > friendly.
>
>   WDDTT!
>
>     cheers,
>       DaveK

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