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Subject: Re: Newbie Cygdrive questions
From: David Conrad <DavidConrad AT acm DOT org>
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It may be useful to know, if you do not already, that the cygpath
utility can be used to convert between Windows and Unix paths.

cygpath -u X:/INBOUND/CWSCRIPTS/myscript.sh

will give you /cygdrive/x/INBOUND/CWSCRIPTS/myscript.sh, and

cygpath -w /cygdrive/x/INBOUND/CWSCRIPTS/myscript.sh

will give you X:\INBOUND\CWSCRIPTS\myscript.sh

You can also use cygpath -m if you prefer forward slashes, even in
your Windows paths.


On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Richard <richard AT karmannghia DOT org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, mrushton wrote:
>>
>>
>> To access this shared X drive under Cygwin it seems I have to do this :
>>
>> /cygdrive/X/INBOUND/CWSCRIPTS/myscript.sh
>>
>>
>> Is this correct ?  Is there a better way ?
>>
>> And C: seems to be /cygdrive/C/
>>
>
> A BETTER way?
>
> This has nothing per se to do with Cygwin, but, briefly:
>
> Standardize all your systems on something YOU can control. For example, I
> always create a top-level directory called l (that's the letter, not the
> numeral) which stands for "local", and another called nfs, which simply
> means a remote mount - could be real nfs or Samba - and then make links
> within these directories to wherever they need to go. That way, all disk
> space is available via either:
>
> /l/<whatever>
>
> or
>
> /nfs/<whatever>
>
> as appropriate.
>
> And there's never any confusion over which is which - and drive letters can
> be completely avoided as desired, or not.
>
> ...All (many!) good System Administrators do things similar to this...
>
> Richard
>
>
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