Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <38D26C70.3D14AEAD@vinschen.de> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 18:33:36 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen Reply-To: Cygwin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: de,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin Subject: Re: Referencing Files In Bash Using UNC format? References: <38D26374.E3BE2182@vixel.com> <38D26C2A.49224065@veritas.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bob McGowan wrote: > David White wrote: > >[...] > > I want to make references from bash on NT to a file that is on a shared > > drive on a remote system. In a DOS box, I would use the UNC format > > \\computername\sharename\path\file.ext to get at this file. Is there a > > special cygnus format for this sort of thing? > >[...] > The same format appears to work (for Cygwin 1.0, CD), but you need to > quote it: > > ls '\\system\directory' As it's usual on U*X systems you may use forward slashes: ls //system/directory Corinna -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com