[wellylug] curly csv formatting

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On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 23:53:13 +1200, Mark Signal wrote:

> If you know sed can you figure out how to use it to convert windows paths to
> cygwin paths?
> 
<snip>
> eg %USERPATH% under xp = c:\Documents and Settings\mark
> rsync under cygwin wants to see this : "/cygdrive/c/Documents and
> Settings/mark"
> 

You could try:

echo 'c:\Documents and Settings\mark\other\guff' | sed -e
's$\([a-zA-Z]\):\\\(.*\)$/cygdrive/\1/\2$' -e 's$\\$/$g'

or, if %USERPATH% is some kind of freaky environment variable that
cygwin knows about:

echo "%USERPATH%\other\guff" | sed -e
's$\([a-zA-Z]\):\\\(.*\)$/cygdrive/\1/\2$' -e 's$\\$/$g'

It works for me anyway, with one important restriction: you must not
have any '/' characters in the path (the entire path, not just the
%USERPATH% bit).  Since this seems to be an illegal character in
Windows filenames (<http://www.macwindows.com/tutfiles.html>) I don't
expect it will be a problem, but you never know.

Cheers
Tony