On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 03:23:38PM -0500, risin...@nationwide.com wrote: >Eric wrote on 02/10/2011 12:15:33 PM: > >> On 02/10/2011 10:13 AM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >> > Might the ability to identify cygwin's root be a good >> > thing to add to cygpath? >> >> And what's so hard about 'cygpath -w /'? >> >> > Under "System information", one could have an option >> > >> > -R, --root output cygwin root directory >> > >> > where >> > >> > $ cygpath -Rw >> > C:\cygwin >> >> Trading / for -R doesn't justify the bloat and burning another short >> option character, in my opinion. > >If you need it ofetn enough, here is a simple script for displaying the >cygwin root: > >case $1 in > -w) > mount | grep " / " | cut -d" " -f1 | sed 's:/:\\:g' > ;; > -u) > DRIVE=$(mount | grep " / " | cut -d":" -f1): > echo $(mount | grep "^$DRIVE " | \ > cut -d" " -f3)$(mount | grep " / " | cut -d" " -f1) | \ > sed 's/'$DRIVE'//' > ;; > *) > echo "Please specify -w (Windows) or -u (Unix)" > ;; >esac
Why would we need a simple script to display the cygwin root when "cygpath -w /" works fine? cgf -- 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
