Usage: cygpath [-p|--path] (-u|--unix)|(-w|--windows [-s|--short-name]) filename
cygpath [-v|--version]
cygpath [-W|--windir|-S|--sysdir]
-u|--unix print UNIX form of filename
-w|--windows print Windows form of filename
-s|--short-name print Windows short form of filename
-p|--path filename argument is a path
-v|--version print program version
-W|--windir print Windows directory
-S|--sysdir print Windows system directory
-i|--ignore ignore missing filename argument |
The cygpath program is a utility that converts Windows native filenames to Cygwin POSIX-style pathnames and back. It can be used when a Cygwin program needs to pass a file name to a native Windows program, or expects to get a file name from a native Windows program. You may use the long or short option names interchangeably, even though only the short ones are described here.
The -u and -w options indicate whether you want a conversion from Windows to UNIX (POSIX) format (-u) or a conversion from UNIX (POSIX) to Windows format (-w). You must give exactly one of these. To give neither or both is an error. Use the -s option in combination with the -w option to convert to Windows short form.
The -p option means that you want to convert a path-style string rather than a single filename. For example, the PATH environment variable is semicolon-delimited in Windows, but colon-delimited in UNIX. By giving -p you are instructing cygpath to convert between these formats.
The -i option supresses the print out of the usage message if no filename argument was given. It can be used in make file rules converting variables to a proper format that may be omitted.
Example 3-5. Example cygpath usage
#!/bin/sh for i in `echo *.exe | sed 's/\.exe/cc/'` do notepad "`cygpath -w $i`" done |