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From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten AT thorstenkampe DOT de>
Subject: Re: How to uniformly point to the root of a drive?
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* Christopher Faylor (Sun, 20 May 2007 13:36:16 -0400)
> On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 01:27:05PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >So it sounds like Brian's method would work then wouldn't it?
> 
> Does this give you what you want, too?
> 
> driveroot=$(cygpath $(cygpath -wm /)/..)

Yes.


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