Direct/efficient way to chop off trailing \n

[Paul.Domaskis <Paul dot Domaskis at gmail dot com>]

Running bash in a Windows environment, I often find the need to
generate a full Windows path to a file so that I can access the file
from a Windows app.

If I use

   cygpath -aw TheFile > /dev/clipboard

I can paste into the Windows file-opener without browsing.  Also, I
don't need to mouse around to highlight the result of cygpath.
However, the clipboard always contains an invisible carriage return,
which I have to remove by pressing backspacing.  This doesn't visibly
change anything, but it does remove the trailing \n which chokes up
Windows.

Since I hate manually deleting stuff that I can't see, the most
efficient way around this seems to be:

   cygpath -aw | tr -d '\n' > /dev/clipboard

This is starting to get longer and longer.  It is comprising the whole
goal of getting a sequence of operations that is so brief that one
does not sigh at having to do it countless times.

Is there a more succinct way to get a clean path for a file from the
bash shell into the Windows clipboard?


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