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Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 22:51:33 -0800
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: cygpath question
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Robert,

I need to make a slight amendment to what I wrote before. Please see below.


At 22:33 2003-01-23, Randall R Schulz wrote:

>...
>
>
>>    $ pwd
>>    /
>>
>>    $ cdd C:\My Music
>
>Here's what happens:
>
>cd "`cygpath --unix "C:My Music"`"
>
>I'm guessing your Cygwin root is the same as your C: drive root, so in 
>this case you more or less incidentally get the result you want 
>because your current directory was "/" (Cygwin) and "C:/" (Windows).

I should have tried an experiment. The current directory doesn't matter 
(nor, in that case, does the relationship between your Cygwin root and 
any particular Windows directory).

These two are identical:

cd "$(cygpath --unix "D:Documents and Settings")"

cd "$(cygpath --unix "D:\Documents and Settings")"


(I prefer the $( ... ) syntax to the `...` syntax.)


Randall Schulz 


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