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Re: Why does robocopy confuse input and output files defined with Cygwin/bash and perl?
- From: Eliot Moss <moss at cs dot umass dot edu>
- To: siegfried at heintze dot com
- Cc: cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 11:06:53 -0400
- Subject: Re: Why does robocopy confuse input and output files defined with Cygwin/bash and perl?
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- Reply-to: moss at cs dot umass dot edu
Dealing with "odd" characters like \ and such can be a pain, huh?
Perhaps it will help you to know that bash will expand variables
inside double-quoted arguments, i.e., "${src}". (You can write
"$src" if you want, but over the years I am finding it clearer /
better to use the { } to make clear the name of the variable I
want expanded.)
Also, you may find the cygpath utility helpful, and the $( ) idiom
of bash. Thus:
robocopy /s "$(cygpath -w /cygdrive/c/Users/siegfriend/Documents/bin)" "$(cygpath -w
/cygdrive/f/backup/unison/bin)"
I believe this will do what you want. cygpath can be very helpful
hen you desire to run a Windows program from the cygwin environment.
Regards -- Eliot Moss
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