X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4AF4A495.3060108@bopp.net> Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:35:01 -0600 From: Jeremy Bopp User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.7] Can you have multipe cygdrive path prefixes active at once References: <26227605.post@talk.nabble.com> <26227607.post@talk.nabble.com> <4AF3C9FE.806@bopp.net> <26230853.post@talk.nabble.com> <4AF495B0.7090607@bopp.net> <786EBDA1AC46254B813E200779E7AD36617A63@srv1163ex1.flightsafety.com> In-Reply-To: <786EBDA1AC46254B813E200779E7AD36617A63@srv1163ex1.flightsafety.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 Thrall, Bryan wrote: > 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: >> $ dirname $(cygpath -u C:/) >> >> 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 :) That's pretty sweet, but that feature seems to be fairly fortuitous rather than by design. Maybe someone could speak on this point with more authority. -Jeremy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple