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List:       mingw-users
Subject:    Re: [Mingw-users] Short file names.
From:       Peter Rosin <peda () lysator ! liu ! se>
Date:       2010-09-20 18:57:23
Message-ID: 4C97AE93.2020307 () lysator ! liu ! se
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Den 2010-09-20 18:43 skrev LRN:
> On 20.09.2010 18:54, Peter Rosin wrote:
> > I have a silly, twisted and probably fragile way to do it, using
> > a loop that calls "cmd //C dir //X ..." and various sed expressions
> > etc, so I'd very much appreciate a simple way.
> Sed expressions? AFAIK cmd shell variable expansion is able to produce 
> short version of a path, so you do not need to use "dir" command, just 
> something along echo `cmd //C "for %i in (".") do @echo %~si"` (to echo 
> short form of current directory, you'll have to cd into the directory 
> you want first, obviously).

I told you it was silly and twisted, didn't I? :-)

Anyway, thanks for the excellent suggestion!

Cheers,
Peter

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