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Manjunatha Appaji Gowda wrote:

> please help on this

Cygwin's goal is to provide a POSIX environment.  That $0 gets
POSIX-ified is on purpose; that is the whole point of /cygdrive.  Using
Win32 paths with drive letters with Cygwin tools is error-prone and
sometimes works only by accident, other times not at all.  It's not
supported.

If you really want a Win32 path you need to use cygpath, e.g.

echo $(dirname "$(cygpath -m "$0")")

Brian

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