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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 12:19:25 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: svartsjel AT gmx DOT net
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Subject: Re: How can I abbreviate /cygdrive/DRIVELETTER ?
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On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 svartsjel AT gmx DOT net wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
> As I often access different drives from within the bash I'm wondering if
> there's a quicker way to get on, say, drive l (a network drive) than entering
> 'cd /cygdrive/l'?
> I alias'd '/cygdrive/l' to 'l' which works fine for cd, but not for commands
> like chmod, cp, mv etc. Among others I'd like to use the automatic command
> line completion which doesn't work for /cygdrive/... either.
> Any suggestions?
>
> Best wishes,
> Svartsjel

Try

$ mkdir /l
$ mount l:/ /l

for details, "man mount".
	Igor
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