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Re: cygpath feature suggestion
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 12:34:58PM -0400, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote:
>It would be useful if cygpath could work as a filter, taking in lists of
>paths on the standard input and put them out one per line on the standard
>output. This could be used as a work-around for
> for F in
>`command_or_pipe_creating_a_list_of_files_with_spaces_in_them`
> do
> echo ${F}
> done
>causing the file names to be split up at the spaces.
>
>Yes, I know, PTC, but I'm not a programmer. This is just a suggestion.
In this case, the only PTC required is for the documentation. Take a look
at 'cygpath --help', the option already exists. It is just not in the man
page.
cgf
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