How convert Linux path to Windows path like "cygpath&qu

KenJackson · Post by **KenJackson** » Sat May 30, 2009 7:27 am

I'm forced to use Windows at work, so I make very heavy use of Cygwin, a very wonderful thing. One way I use it is with this handy little shell script:

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#!/bin/sh
MSO="/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/OFFICE11"
if [ -n "$1" ]; then
    "$MSO"/WORDVIEW.EXE "$(cygpath -w "$@")" &
else
    "$MSO"/WORDVIEW.EXE &
fi

Now I have installed Microsoft's free wordview program on my Linux machine under wine and would like to use this script to easily view word documents.

But I need an equivalent to the cygpath command.

How can I automatically convert a Linux path like ~/doc/SomeFile.doc to a Windows path like
H:\\doc\\SomeFile.doc?

rein · Post by **rein** » Sat May 30, 2009 8:44 am

KenJackson wrote: How can I automatically convert a Linux path like ~/doc/SomeFile.doc to a Windows path like
H:\\doc\\SomeFile.doc?

That program is called winepath, see "winepath --help"

KenJackson · Post by **KenJackson** » Sat May 30, 2009 9:19 am

That's it! Thank you, rein.

I think I used to know about winepath. I don't know why it eluded me.

Gert van den Berg · Post by **Gert van den Berg** » Sat May 30, 2009 9:20 am

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 14:27, KenJackson <[email protected]> wrote:

But I need an equivalent to the cygpath command.

http://wiki.winehq.org/winepath