From windows to Linux paths

[pabloa]

Hi there

During the weekend I was bombarded by hundreds of thousands of millions of emails asking how to do the reverse transformation of paths, from windows to Linux. I've got the following script (called windows_path):

#!/bin/bash  

server_name=${@//\\/\/}

projects_name=/mnt/server/projects 
quotes_name=/mnt/server/quotes  

server_name=${current_dir/Z:/$projects_name} 
server_name=${server_name/Y:/$quotes_name}  

echo $server_name

However there are a couple of things to be aware of. First, this script wants the windows path as a parameter (in my case it would be usually pasted from an email). But although it works fine doing a straight invocation from the command line ...

 pabloa$ windows_path Y:\Batch 6 - June 24 2011
/mnt/server/quotes/Batch 2 - June 24 2011

... most of the time I want the result to be passed onto some other command, and then it breaks:

 pabloa$ cd $(windows_path Y:\Batch 6 - June 24 2011)
bash: cd: /mnt/servidor/quotes/Batch: No such file or directory

So we need to "protect" the result with quotation marks. Then it works fine:

pabloa$ cd "$(windows_path Y:\Batch 6 - June 24 2011)"
pabloa$ pwd
/mnt/servidor/quotes/Batch 6 - June 24 2011

I've tried to solve this slight inconvenience replacing echo $server_name with echo ${server_name// /\ } and even echo ${server_name// /\\ } to no avail. Maybe someone out there knows of a good way of dealing with this.

By the way, a very good source of information for the string substitutions I've done in this and the previous scripts can be found here: Manipulating Strings, highly enjoyable reading.

Cheers.
P.

[pabloa]

Following the thrilling saga of working with Windows paths under Linux, here there is an extra twist that I'm sure will be appreciated by the masses.

A worthy addition to the script posted earlier is this:

echo $server_name
# add the following
cd "$server_name"
bash

And then after running the script, we will be placed in the directory given as parameter. I couldn't find other way of doing this. There is no way (that I could find) of staying in the new directory when the script returns.

Cheers.
P.

[Cotty]

...I was bombarded by hundreds of thousands of millions of emails...

Loved that...

[pabloa]

Loved that...

... and I've read every single one of them!

Cheers.
P.