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cygpath only works if the path presently exists
- From: "Wheeler, Frederick W \(Research\)" <wheeler at crd dot ge dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:18:47 -0500
- Subject: cygpath only works if the path presently exists
I'm a little surprised by this behavior from "cygpath"
% cygpath -w "//nsk120000650701/share"
\\nsk120000650701\share
% cygpath -w "//nsk120000650701/share_does_not_exist"
cygpath: error converting "//nsk120000650701/share_does_not_exist" - No such host or network path
In the first command, the path in the argument exists, in the second the path does not. I think cygpath should convert the path even if the path/file don't currently exist. Or perhaps there should be an option to get that behavior.
My real concern is converting this //nsk1prn02/c304_p to this \\nsk1prn02\c304_p. This is a valid win2k printer path that I could pass to /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/print using the /D: option, but cygpath won't convert it.
I did a complete cygwin update moments ago.
Fred Wheeler
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