To add new wrinkles after the final one, "$USERPROFILE/My Documents" is still somewhat presumptuous. That certainly looks like the default location, but in Windows XP (what I just checked on) the user is allowed to change the location of My Documents through the UI. On my machine, it's (Windows syntax) D:\Doc, even though %USERPROFILE% still references C:\Documents and Settings\smueller.
stephan(); -----Original Message----- From: Don Dwiggins [mailto:dond@;advancedmp.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 12:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Is it possible to copy a file from anywhere to My Documents with bash cp? Randall R Schulz writes: > You should be able to see the contents of your "My Documents" > directory with this command: > % ls -l "$USERPROFILE/My Documents" > Likewise, you can move or copy files to that directory like this: > % cp SomeFile "$USERPROFILE/My Documents" > % mv OtherFile "$USERPROFILE/My Documents" As a final wrinkle, if you're going to do this a lot, you might want to do something like "mount -u "$USERPROFILE/My Documents" /mydocs"; then you can say things like "mv furniture /mydocs". -- Don Dwiggins "Solvitur Ambulando" [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
