X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=PtmmuDOkwgQr1nC8 04w+cbiABMNqjk5KhKRKNg4477LgAH2IrVwaA9uGuPRZYOoaP9aw0uS6NuzwMmWK J3MP89K/WLa6W2UvnX0oyuWBQuiT5ZV0TQRQsXL4Y6Maw59WNZxoC979q1M6hb7b /oR9q+qT1keBBWLHtURUEJLN+K4= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=ij+nCXPUknLHoxgAuEG3Ts DbWYs=; b=VGZ0Uu8jJC1aSGp4V7g812ulFE5tZOVouzQKpanOBzs44C6hG9j4F9 IDXcEIxx0GqCRtYkhZtjNgIsb70XDaJx+AXFxdgPYdxqSt15sjogRZAKvXZW1Dv2 eHy+2po1cHwYUQGhp1QNRlm7iLj4kPtEpIyPJ5tb3k4hUX0Z0WbwY= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,GIT_PATCH_2,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=H*M:online, drives, Daly, fergus X-HELO: mailout01.t-online.de Subject: Re: Wild card to address drives To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <9D9AC45310887B40A7245734E850FBE179089E44 AT FS-MX02 DOT frontier DOT local> From: =?UTF-8?Q?Hans-Bernhard_Br=c3=b6ker?= Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Message-ID: <98821e64-e055-0ff9-46ea-1dbcc061cd4c@t-online.de> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 18:09:23 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <9D9AC45310887B40A7245734E850FBE179089E44@FS-MX02.frontier.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Am 18.07.2019 um 10:03 schrieb Fergus Daly: > I have > none / cygdrive binary 0 0 > as the only line in the file /etc/fstab to allow for example > $ ls /h/config.sys > instead of the long-hand > $ ls /cygdrive/h/config.sys And that's precisely your problem. You've now overlaid two mount points onto /: the cygdrive tree, and the normal Cygwin root mount. Without this, your command would have worked just fine. > In Linux I can type something like > ls /?/ -Ax > as a wild card to address ALL drives, Not really, as there is no such thing as "drives" on Linux. The above will list all directories under / that have single letters as their name --- whether those be mounted filesystems, or ordinary directories. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple