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On 10/01/2014 08:25 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: > You could write my solution as: > > echo -n `cygpath -aw foo`>/dev/clipboard 'echo -n' is not portable (in fact, you can disable it in bash, and it may misbehave if cygpath outputs a leading - or contains any \); it's better to use 'printf' for that purpose: printf %s `cygpath -aw foo`>/dev/clipboard > The echo solution has the good property that echo is > a shell built-in and so does not require spawning > another process. The same is true of printf. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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