X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-Id: <481F728C.50303@saic.com> Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 16:48:12 -0400 From: Roger Wells Reply-To: roger.k.wells@saic.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: how to change dir References: <17070344.post@talk.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; 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 Mark J. Reed wrote: > On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 4:40 PM, bench33 wrote: > >> In bash, how do you change to another directory? >> >> I see that the only directory I can go is home (c:\cygwin) >> >> I have other physical drives (d:\). How do I go there? >> > > Cygwin apps (including bash) don't understand drive:paths. Use > > cd /cygdrive/d/ > > You can let the cygpath utility do the conversion for you: > > cd "$(cygpath 'd:\')" > > cd c:/windows works fine, note forward slash -- Roger Wells, P.E. SAIC 221 Third St Newport, RI 02840 401-847-4210 (voice) 401-849-1585 (fax) roger.k.wells@saic.com -- 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/