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From: Mike Amling <mamling@chaff.us>
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Subject: Re: From java.nio.Path to Unix-style String on Windows
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On 9/1/17 5:12 PM, Sebastian wrote:
> Am 31.08.2017 um 14:10 schrieb Eric Sosman:
>> On 8/31/2017 5:48 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
>>>
>>>       Hello,
>>>
>>>    I have an app that generates command lines to be executed by Bash
>>> (the popular Unix shell). The command lines contain file names that
>>> are provided as java.nio.Path which are converted to String and then
>>> inserted.
>>>
>>>    When run on Unix or like, a Path is converted to String Unix-style
>>> (e.g. /a/b/c), and that is just as Bash expects it.
>>>
>>>    If run on Windows, however, a Path is converted to String
>>> Windows-style (e.g. C:a\b\c), and that fails, because Bash expects
>>> Unix-style file paths, even if it is run on Windows (e.g. Cygwin Bash,
>>> or Bash on Windows).
>>>
> 
> 
> I don't get the part about stripping away the drive letters. Paths like 
> C:/blabla/...   are perfectly acceptable to my bash (GitBash on Windows).

My dim recollection is that the Cygwin-supplied utilities that take file 
names on the command line (e.g. ls, cat, diff, ...) understand the drive 
letter just fine but backslashes need to be converted to slashes.

--Mike Amling
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