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From: "d.henman" <dhenman@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:54:33 +0900
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Subject: Re: zsh cygpath problem in cygwin
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That is not a zsh problem or bug.=20=20

The variable is getting set properly, it just that you can't print it out, =
because the display routine see's the backslashes, \'s, and treats it as an=
 escape character, which means the next character is probably being turned =
into a non-printable control character.

N.B. for others "cygpath" is a command to translate windows pathnames to po=
six style names or other direction.

Jan L=FCbbe <jlu@ivu.de> wrote:
> I have a very strange problem in cygwin. If I use cygpath normally in
> the zsh everything is fine. But if I assign a variable like JAVA_HOME
> then strange thinks happen. "k\b" disappears and stuff like that. The
> strange thing is, that this does not happen in bash under cygwin. It
> must somehow be related to the zsh. Do you have any ideas?
>=20
> % JAVA_HOME=3D"`cygpath -wl /cygdrive/d/Programme/Java/JavaEE61x32/jdk/bi=
n`"
> % echo $JAVA_HOME
> D:\Programme\Java\JavaEE61x32\jdin

The below is not a full command? The argument is missing.
I suppose you meant --> cygpath -u "$JAVA_HOME"
> % cygpath -wl
> /cygdrive/d/Programme/Java/JavaEE61x32/jdk/bin/jboss-5.1.0.GA/bin
> D:\Programme\Java\JavaEE61x32\jdk\bin

Hope this helps.  The echo command willn ot output the results correctly, b=
ut
% cygpath -u "$JAVA_HOME"
will work and even the redundant

% cygpath -wl "$JAVA_HOME"
which will give you the same value.