From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-04-03T10:17:38+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby, cygwin and paths

Guillaume Marcais wrote:
> This is almost not a ruby question... But I need a ruby solution!
> 
> How to convert a 8.3 dos paths to its fully expanded version. For
> example, how to translate:
> 
> C:\\CYGWIN\\HOME\MYFULL~1\MONROE~9.ALT
> 
> to
> 
> /cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/My Full Name/Monroe-Tyson.alt
> 
> The basename of this last path is relevant to me and while MONROE~9 is
> unusable. cygpath -u, from the cygwin distribution, doesn't expand the
> 8.3 names. It merely changes the \\ into /. How fancy!
> 
> Any solution out there?

There's always the "ugly" way -- don't say you heard it here.

Something like:

path = `cmd /c dir #{file}`.split("\n")[6][-1]

That's untested.

Hal