X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <469A3E11.7010102@x-ray.at> Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 17:32:33 +0200 From: Reini Urban User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070509 SeaMonkey/1.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Directory Aliasing References: <11596212.post@talk.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: <11596212.post@talk.nabble.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 LittleTim schrieb: > 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. use cygwin mount (cygwin only) or hardlinks by ln or junction (sysinternals.com) -- Reini -- 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/