Cygwin convert windows path to linux path: Difference between revisions

Cygwin convert windows path to linux path (edit)

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 $ cygpath -u 'c:\Users\User\Desktop\'
 /cygdrive/c/Users/User/Desktop/
-$ cygpath -u c:\Program Files\
-met error, press ctrl+c to escape
 enclose the whole path with single quote symbol if the path contains white space characters
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 /cygdrive/c/Program Files
 </pre>
+=== troubleshooting ===
+<pre>
+enclose the whole path with single quote symbol if the path contains white space characters ex: cygpath -u 'c:\Program Files\'
+$ cygpath -u c:\Program Files\
+met error, press ctrl+c to escape
+enclose with double quote symbol after cd command ex: cd "$(cygpath -u 'c:\Program Files\')"
+$ cd $(cygpath -u 'c:\Program Files\')
+-bash: cd: /cygdrive/c/Program: No such file or directory
+$ cd '$(cygpath -u 'c:\Program Files\')'
+-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `)'
+</pre>
 == convert linux path to windows path ==
 <pre>