Re: [Mingw-msys] MSYS/MinGW --> Windows Path?

[Bob F. <bfr...@si...>]

I wrote up this short shell script (which I call "winpath.sh") to
convert paths from POSIX form to Windows form.  It works under both
MSYS and Cygwin.  Execution time on a 2GHz Pentium IV is about 1/2
a second (1/2 a second too long).  There is a provision for adding
varying levels of backslash escapes to the output.

Feel free to use the script for whatever you want.

Bob

#!/bin/sh
#
# Convert the specified POSIX path to a Windows path under MinGW and Cygwin
# The optional second parameter specifies the level of backslash escaping
# to apply for each Windows backslash position in order to support varying
# levels of variable substitutions in scripts.
#
# Note that Cygwin includes the 'cygpath' utility, which already provides
# path translation capability.
#
# Written by Bob Friesenhahn <bfr...@si...> June 2002
#
arg="$1"
escapes=0
if test -n "$2"
then
  escapes="$2"
fi
if test $escapes -gt 3
then
  echo "$0: escape level must in range 0 - 3"
  exit 1
fi
result=''
length=0
max_length=0
mount | sed -e 's:\\:/:g'  | (
  IFS="\n"
  while read mount_entry
  do
    win_mount_path=`echo "$mount_entry" | sed -e 's: .*::g'`
    unix_mount_path=`echo "$mount_entry" | sed -e 's:.* on ::;s: type .*::'`
    temp=`echo "$arg" | sed -e "s!^$unix_mount_path!$win_mount_path!"`
    if test "$temp" != "$arg"
    then
      candidate="$temp"
      length=${#unix_mount_path}
      if test $length -gt $max_length
      then
        result=$candidate
        max_length=$length
      fi
    fi
  done
  if test -z "$result"
  then
    echo "$0: path \"$arg\" is not mounted"
    exit 1
  fi
  case $escapes in
    0)
     echo "$result" | sed -e 's:/:\\:g'
     ;;
    1)
     echo "$result" | sed -e 's:/:\\\\:g'
     ;;
    2)
     echo "$result" | sed -e 's:/:\\\\\\\\:g'
     ;;
    3)
     echo "$result" | sed -e 's:/:\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\:g'
     ;;
  esac
  exit 0;
 )