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Re: How to print the full Windows path inside the sed command?
On 2009-12-09, Jeremy Bopp wrote:
> Chip Panarchy wrote:
> > Then I ran the following command from command-prompt;
> >
> > find2 . -follow -type f | sed -e "s|^\.|PATH|" -e "s|^|File:\t|"
> >
> > Is there a command (from Cygwin/Linux: PATH) which I can use to print
> > the full directory path?
> >
> > Please tell me how I can make this command work.
>
> The default behavior of the find program is to print out paths including
> the path to the directory you are searching. In your case, you're using
> the current working directory (.), but you could give find the full path
> instead. You can run something like the following:
>
> find path/to/my/directory -follow -type f | sed -e "s|^|File:\t|"
>
> All file paths printed by this will have path/to/my/directory included
> so there is no need to have sed try to replace (.) with some other path
> string.
In addition to all that, if you're trying to convert between Cygwin
full path names and Windows full path names, use cygpath.
Regards,
Gary
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