X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 17:30:20 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Directory Aliasing Message-ID: <20070714213020.GA19268@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <11596212.post@talk.nabble.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <11596212.post@talk.nabble.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 11:33:30AM -0700, LittleTim wrote: >Hello Everybody: > >I don't have a lot of experience using Cygwin: > >Problem: I do a lot of work in a directory with a long path name: C:\very >long path name\My Work > >Question: Instead of having to type cd C:\very long path name\My Work >everytime I want to switch to this directory, is there any way to do >aliasing? For example, no matter where I am in the file system, typing cd ~ >will take me to my home directory. I've tried to create a symbolic link. >Of course the symbolic link is only valid in the directory where the >symbolic link exists, and not from anywhere in the file system. mkdir /shortdir mount -b 'c:\very long path name\My Work' /shortdir cd /shortdir 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/