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From: Haojun Bao <baohaojun AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: bash `test -e' problem with cdrom drive and soft-disk drive
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Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:14:40 +0800
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Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> writes:

> On Jun  8 22:53, Haojun Bao wrote:
>> 
>> If you have cd-rom/soft-disk drive, please run the following test case,
>> 
>>     for x in {a..z}; do 
>>     if test -e /cygdrive/$x/Windows ; then
>>        echo "Windows found on /cygdrive/$x"
>>        cd /cygdrive/$x
>>     fi
>>     done
>>     
>> And here's the result:
>> 
>>     Windows found on /cygdrive/a
>>     bash: cd: /cygdrive/a: No medium found
>>     Windows found on /cygdrive/c
>>     Windows found on /cygdrive/j
>>     bash: cd: /cygdrive/j: No medium found
>>     Windows found on /cygdrive/k
>>     bash: cd: /cygdrive/k: No medium found
>
> And what's the problem?

The problem is that I think if `cd /cygdrive/a' failes, then so should
`test -e /cygdrive/a/Windows'


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