From: Guillaume Marcais <guslist@...>
Date: 2004-04-03T10:37:22+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby, cygwin and paths

On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 20:17, Hal Fulton wrote:
> 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.

I guess I'll settle for sliglthly improved:

path = `cmd /c dir /b #{file}`

The /b is the bare format: only the name.

Thanks all.
Guillaume.

> 
> Hal
> 
> 
>