X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,TW_YG,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Yahoo-SMTP: jenXL62swBAWhMTL3wnej93oaS0ClBQOAKs8jbEbx_o- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:35:53 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Accessing folders elsewhere than C:\cygwin Message-ID: <20110210203553.GB32475@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4D52A7DD.7080208@bonhard.uklinux.net> <4D52B4D3.2040102@sbcglobal.net> <20110209163858.GJ16194@calimero.vinschen.de> <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A209C0F073A4@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> <4D541D35.3020901@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 03:23:38PM -0500, RISINGP1@nationwide.com wrote: >Eric wrote on 02/10/2011 12:15:33 PM: > >> On 02/10/2011 10:13 AM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >> > Might the ability to identify cygwin's root be a good >> > thing to add to cygpath? >> >> And what's so hard about 'cygpath -w /'? >> >> > Under "System information", one could have an option >> > >> > -R, --root output cygwin root directory >> > >> > where >> > >> > $ cygpath -Rw >> > C:\cygwin >> >> Trading / for -R doesn't justify the bloat and burning another short >> option character, in my opinion. > >If you need it ofetn enough, here is a simple script for displaying the >cygwin root: > >case $1 in > -w) > mount | grep " / " | cut -d" " -f1 | sed 's:/:\\:g' > ;; > -u) > DRIVE=$(mount | grep " / " | cut -d":" -f1): > echo $(mount | grep "^$DRIVE " | \ > cut -d" " -f3)$(mount | grep " / " | cut -d" " -f1) | \ > sed 's/'$DRIVE'//' > ;; > *) > echo "Please specify -w (Windows) or -u (Unix)" > ;; >esac Why would we need a simple script to display the cygwin root when "cygpath -w /" works fine? cgf -- 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