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Subject: Re: 1.7] Can you have multipe cygdrive path prefixes active at once
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Jeremy Bopp wrote:
>aputerguy wrote:
>> In particular, I can't use "mount -p" to distinguish between prefixes
>> that
>> might have (variable) number of trailing spaces (which is allowed).
>
> I believe that you want to use the cygpath program if you want to
> convert POSIX paths to Windows paths reliably.  Assuming the default
> cygdrive prefix is in use:
>
> $ cygpath -w /cygdrive/c/an/example/posix/path
> C:\an\example\posix\path

All true and known. BUT I want to know the cygdrive prefix in general for
use in future constructions rather than just making a single path. Say if I
want to find all files, I want to do something like "find <cygdrive-prefix>


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