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From: "Raye Raskin" <rayer AT pobox DOT com>
To: "Dave Korn" <dk AT artimi DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: /cygdrive command line completion?
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:52:32 -0800
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>> >> Is this a FAQ?  Can't find it.
>> >> 
>> >> How do I get /cygdrive to auto-complete on the command line?
>> >
>> >
>> >mkdir /cygdrive
>> >
>> >WFM, anyway.

WFM, too.  Thanks.

>> If you type
>> 
>>   ls /cygdrive/<tab>
>> 
>> it should just work without creating the directory.  

Ha! The whole point was to avoid having to type /cygdrive !
This won't work for me anyway since I have 'c' and 'd' drives.

>  Ah, didn't guess that.  I had tried "ls /cygdrive<tab>" and it didn't work,
> so....
> 
>> The directory is only necessary if you want to do:
>> 
>>   ls /cyg<tab>
>> 
>> and have the "drive" part added.
> 
>  Unfortunately, the presence of cygwin.bat and cygwin.ico in the root tend to
> make a mess of that, and even making them both non-executable doesn't help.

Rename cygwin.bat to Cygwin.bat and cygwin.ico to Cygwin.ico.

WFM, anyway. ;-)

Raye.

>    cheers, 
>      DaveK


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