On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Jeremy Bopp <jer...@bopp.net> wrote: > raphael() wrote: >> The problem is that AS Perl cannot find the Perl script I invoke on >> the command line as the script's PATH that Cygwin reports to AS Perl >> is a unix one i.e. /cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/.../bin whereas AS Perl >> requires it in C:\cygwin\home\...\bin\. The Perl script is in PATH. >> >> This happens only with AS Perl (duh) as it requires backslash >> delimited path. I have searched somewhat on the web regarding this but >> haven't found anything. >> There are bash scripts that act in between and convert unix path to >> windows before invoking AS Perl but you still have to give it complete >> script path like >> >> $ bash_convert.sh /home/.../bin/perlscript.pl -h >> >> this will give C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe C:\cygwin\home\...\bin\perlscript.pl -h >> >> But what I want is that it should work directly like perlscr{TAB} >> {ENTER} and voilà working :) >> >> Any Ideas? > > The problem is that ActivePerl is a Windows program, and as such cannot > use POSIX paths (/cygdrive/c/...) as produced by Cygwin. It has nothing > to do with the slashes since Windows programs can use paths with either > kind, even a mix, so long as they are Windows paths (C:\Program Files\...). > > You have two options available to you: > > 1) Use the cygpath program to convert the paths as needed so that you > can send the paths to your scripts. e.g.) > > $ perl "$(cygpath -w /path/to/myscript.pl)" > > 2) Put your files into PATH and tell perl to find them for itself using > the -S option. e.g.) > > $ perl -S myscript.pl > > > With either option you can wrap the action you choose with another > script or shell alias to hide what is actually going on so that you can > get what you want when interacting with the shell. For instance, say > you're going to take option 2, then you can do the following: > > $ alias myscript.pl="perl -S myscript.pl" > > Then you can run it the way you wanted with tab completion. > > -Jeremy > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > >
Thanks! Your ALIAS thing is wonderful though it escaped my mind. alias myscript.pl NICE ONE and thanks again. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple