Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6318.0 Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Subject: RE: Is it possible to copy a file from anywhere to My Documents with bash cp? Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 12:46:38 -0700 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Stephan Mueller" To: "Don Dwiggins" , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Oct 2002 19:46:38.0415 (UTC) FILETIME=[E6D0B5F0:01C27ACC] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g9NJks524633 To add new wrinkles after the final one, "$USERPROFILE/My Documents" is still somewhat presumptuous. That certainly looks like the default location, but in Windows XP (what I just checked on) the user is allowed to change the location of My Documents through the UI. On my machine, it's (Windows syntax) D:\Doc, even though %USERPROFILE% still references C:\Documents and Settings\smueller. stephan(); -----Original Message----- From: Don Dwiggins [mailto:dond@advancedmp.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 12:14 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Is it possible to copy a file from anywhere to My Documents with bash cp? Randall R Schulz writes: > You should be able to see the contents of your "My Documents" > directory with this command: > % ls -l "$USERPROFILE/My Documents" > Likewise, you can move or copy files to that directory like this: > % cp SomeFile "$USERPROFILE/My Documents" > % mv OtherFile "$USERPROFILE/My Documents" As a final wrinkle, if you're going to do this a lot, you might want to do something like "mount -u "$USERPROFILE/My Documents" /mydocs"; then you can say things like "mv furniture /mydocs". -- Don Dwiggins "Solvitur Ambulando" d.l.dwiggins@computer.org -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/