Friday, November 16, 2012

Use cygpath with -p option for your Java CLASSPATH conversion

I just noticed that Cygwin's cygpath command supports -p option. This is a real gem when writing Java wrapper script that needs to covert CLASSPATH values. A simple script can demonstrate the purpose.


#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Author: Zemian Deng, Date: 2012-11-16_06:30:00
#
# run.sh - A simple Java wrapper script for Cygwin and Unix/Linux shell. We assume 
# this script is located in a subdiretory inside the application home directory.
# Example:
#   app/bin/run.sh
#   app/config/log4j.properties
#   app/lib/log4j.jar
# Usage:
#   bash> run.sh app.Hello
#
DIR=$(cd "$(dirname $0)/.." && pwd)
CP=${CP:="$DIR/config:$DIR/lib/*"}
if [[ "$OS" == Windows* ]]; then
 CP=$(cygpath -mp $CP)
fi
java -cp "$CP" "$@"

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