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Re: Heads-up: postinstall scripts and PATH (Attn all package maintainers)
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 05:03:27PM -0700, Warren Young wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>Is there a better name than --mode?
>
>It might be easier to use in a script if the syntax were more like this:
>
>if [ cygpath --is-binary /tmp ] ; then ....
Except that I'm returning either "binary" or "text" which would make it:
case "`cygpath --mode /foo`"; in
binary) echo it is binary ;;
text) echo it is text ;;
esac
>cygpath would not have to print anything, but just return 1 or 0, as
>appropriate.
That is not how cygpath works in any other scenario, I don't see any reason
to deviate from its current behavior.
cgf