How to format a dos path to a unix path on cygwin command line
- by Jennette
When using Cygwin, I frequently copy a Windows path and manually edit all of the slashes to Unix format. For example, if I am using Cygwin and need to change directory I enter:
cd C:\windows\path
then edit this to
cd C:/windows/path
(Typically, the path is much longer than that). Is there a way to use sed, or something else to do this automatically? For example, I tried:
echo C:\windows\path|sed 's|\|g'
but got the following error
sed: -e expression #1, char 7: unterminated `s' command
My goal is to reduce the typing, so maybe I could write a program which I could call. Ideally I would type:
conversionScript cd C:/windows/path
and this would be equivalent to typing:
cd C:\windows\path
