How can I convert a Windows dir path (say c:/libs/Qt-static
) to the correct POSIX dir path (/c/libs/Qt-static
) by means of standard msys features? And vice versa?
I don't know msys
, but a quick google search showed me that it includes the sed
utility. So, assuming it works similar in msys
than it does on native Linux, here's one way how to do it:
You'll have to replace all backslashes with slashes, remove the first colon after the drive letter, and add a slash at the beginning:
echo "/$pth" | sed 's/\\/\//g' | sed 's/://'
or, as noted by xaizek,
echo "/$pth" | sed -e 's/\\/\//g' -e 's/://'
You'll have to add a semi-colon, remove the first slash and replace all slashes with backslashes:
echo "$pth" | sed 's/^\///' | sed 's/\//\\/g' | sed 's/^./\0:/'
or more efficiently,
echo "$pth" | sed -e 's/^\///' -e 's/\//\\/g' -e 's/^./\0:/'
where $pth
is a variable storing the Windows or POSIX path, respectively.