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Subject: RE: 1.7] Can you have multipe cygdrive path prefixes active at once
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 16:21:35 -0600
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From: "Thrall, Bryan" <bryan.thrall@flightsafety.com>
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Jeremy Bopp wrote on Friday, November 06, 2009 3:31 PM:
> Well, it's a bit of a hack, but you could try something like the
following:
>=20
> $ dirname $(cygpath -u C:/)
>=20
> This assumes that there is always a C: drive and converts the path to
> the root of that drive into a POSIX path which will include the
cygdrive
> prefix.  Then dirname is used to effectively chop off the drive letter
> leaving you with the cygdrive prefix.

Actually:

$ ls /cygdrive
c  e  f  h  j  p  t  z
$ cygpath -u x:/
/cygdrive/x

Seems like you aren't assuming the drive exists :)
--=20
Bryan Thrall
FlightSafety International
bryan.thrall@flightsafety.com

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