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Re: Little cygpath improvement request


Greetings, Larry Hall (Cygwin)!

> On 2/14/2014 1:22 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
>> Greetings, All!
>>
>> I would like to request a small functional change for cygpath.
>> In the event of empty given path argument (i.e. `cygpath -ml ""') silently
>> return an empty result without error message.
>> This would greatly simplify wrapper scripts.

> Why isn't redirecting the message to /dev/null not sufficient, something
> like this (bash syntax)?

Because it'll require creating a redirection? And this kind of redundant
inserts blurring the code.
Returning a non-zero exit code would suffice for debugging purposes.

> cygpath -ml ""  >/dev/null 2&>1

Err, not > /dev/null !!! :D


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 14.02.2014, <23:41>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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