Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] <BBuchbinder <at> niaid.nih.gov> writes: >Paul sent the following at Tuesday, January 06, 2015 7:12 PM >> I'm wading through many files in two file trees. In particular, I'm >> looking at corresponding directories in the two trees where "diff >> -qr" revealed differences. I want the absolute truth of what the >> filename is with minimal distractions about how to achieve that. >> Then, I can focus on figuring how those files came about, and how >> the differences arose. > > Not a Cygwin solution but the following should give real names. > > cmd /c dir /b /a: > > (The /a: makes sure that hidden files are listed.)
That works great, Barry. The following also works: cmd /c dir /b /a: | dos2unix | xargs ls -ltd However, variation#1 type -pa pdfcrop | xargs cmd /c dir /b /a: doesn't work because dir expects DOS filenames (I suspect). Variation#2 type -pa pdfcrop | xargs cygpath -aw | xargs cmd /c dir /b /a: doesn't work because the backward slashes are interpretted by Escapes by bash. Variation#3 (on *one* line): type -pa pdfcrop | xargs cygpath -aw -t mixed | xargs cmd /c dir /b /a: doesn't work because Parameter format not correct - "cygwin64" To find out what was going on, I stuck an "echo" in front of cmd, which yielded the following (on *one* line): cmd /c dir /b /a: C:/cygwin64/home/User.Name/bin/pdfcrop C:/cygwin64/usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts/pdfcrop/pdfcrop.pl C:/cygwin64/usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts/pdfcrop/pdfcrop.pl I think the dir command is interpreting /cygwin64 as a command switch. -- 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