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Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 06:04:03 +0000
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Subject: Re: Could I use backslash directly as path delimiter on cygwin?
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
 > On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 05:39:10AM +0000, Andy Koppe wrote:
 >> yuanyun.ken wrote:
 >>> cygwin is great, I like it.  But when I want to change directory, I
 >>> have to type 'cd D:/dira/dirb' or 'cd D:\\dira\\dirb'.  This is
 >>> somewhat inconvenient.
 >> <shameless plug> You might like MinTTY, which allows you to drag and
 >> drop files into it.  Your example would be inserted as "D:\dira\dirb".
 >> See http://code.google.com/p/mintty </shameless plug>
 >
 > MinTTY is nice but I think people may be missing the point here (or I
 > am).  I believe that the OP wants to avoid typing "cd a:\\b\\c" and just
 > type "cd a:\b\c" into the bash shell.

Sorry, I quoted the wrong bit of the original post. Here's the relevant 
part:

 > So I can just copy the dir path from windows explore, and paste it in
 > cygwin's command line?


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