How to format a Windows path to a Unix path on Cygwin command line

Thanks all. Apparently all I need are single quotes around the path:

cd 'C:\windows\path'

and Cygwin will convert it. Cygpath would work too, but it also needs the single quotes to prevent the shell from eating the backslash characters.

windows unix sed path cygwin

Read about the cygpath command.

somecommand `cygpath -u WIN_PATH`

e.g.

windows unix sed path cygwin

cmd.exe doesn't like single quotes. You should use double quotes

C:\test>echo C:\windows\path|sed "s|\\|/|g"C:/windows/path

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