X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: window command in bash Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:34:44 -0700 Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <31DDB7BE4BF41D4888D41709C476B65704168D1A@NIHCESMLBX5.nih.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 Igor Peshansky wrote: > Exactly. Case in point: UNC paths. Both "\\machine\share" > and"\machine\share" will refer to the string '\machine\share'. To > really reference a UNC path, you'll need to say "\\\\machine\\share". > So why not double the backslashes anyway and save yourself the confusion? Personally I just say //machine/share. Why count all those backslashes when forward slashes work just fine! (Yeah, yeah, they don't work fine for Windows programs. Instead $(cygpath -w //machine/share)) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew DeFaria Clearcase/Clearquest Consultant Information Lifecycle Management Solutions Phone: 925-474-1492 *AOL Instant Messenger (AIM):* defaria *MSN Messenger:* Andrew@DeFaria.com *Yahoo Pager:* andrew_defaria *ICQ #:* 23552673 *Jabber:* adefaria@jabber.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Why are they called apartments, when they're all stuck together? -- 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/