That is good to know about that utility Cygpath. Maybe I will try it.
What I was doing was going thru some scripts ... changing the paths ...
clean in up stuff ...
over the years I ended up with a lot of commented out sections of code
... and testing them.
And this is a different approach that I never would have thought of.
/l/<whatever>
or
/nfs/<whatever>
Thanks.
On 2/6/2014 5:37 PM, David Conrad wrote:
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
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