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 <rich...@karmannghia.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 > > > -- > 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 > -- 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
