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Date: | Sun, 20 May 2007 11:29:14 -0400 |
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Subject: | Re: How to uniformly point to the root of a drive? |
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On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 04:18:07PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >Hi there, > >is there a way to consistently point (in a script for instance) to the >root of a removable drive (flash drive)? > >The root could be /cygdrive/g on one computer and on the other >/cygdrive/f (I have no control of the drive letters). One solution >would be to install Cygwin to \ (instead of the standard \cygwin) but >for clarity's sake I would like to keep the Cygwin stuff in a >directory of its own. > >Any suggestions or hints? Do you mean that you've got cygwin on a removable drive and want to figure out where it's running from? If so, then running a script from the drive and looking at $0 might work. If that doesn't give the full path then /proc/self/exe will but getting the symlink info might be tricky if you are in the setup phase of trying to figure out how to get to something like <whereever>/bin/readlink.exe. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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