[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi everyone!I've long since changed the cygdrive prefix to /dev. Seemed like a natural place to put it and it's fairly short. Never encountered a problem.
As I often access different drives from within the bash I'm wondering if there's a quicker way to get on, say, drive l (a network drive) than entering 'cd /cygdrive/l'? I alias'd '/cygdrive/l' to 'l' which works fine for cd, but not for commands like chmod, cp, mv etc. Among others I'd like to use the automatic command line completion which doesn't work for /cygdrive/... either.
Any suggestions?
However for cd'ing to a common location I tend to use environment variables such as:
$ export src="//server/share/path/to/src/file"
Then do things like cd $src. Normally, important areas are set up in my startup scripts. The nice thing is that if you wanted to say "more" a file that works to, with file name completion as in:
$ more $src/a/sub<tab>
Changes to
$ more //server/share/path/to/src/file/a/subdirectory.
Oh, and I also tend to use UNC names instead of mounting drive letters. So even if one did
$ net use L: \\\\server\\share\\path\\to\\src\\file
I would still tend to use the UNC name of //server/share/path/to/src/file or $src. One reason for this is that one persons L: drive may be another server/share all together on another desktop machine. With UNC names there is no ambiguity.
Note that while file name completion doesn't work on just a /cydri<tab> it will work after /cygdrive. Similarly filename completion does not work on //server/sha<tab> but if you type //server/share/pa<tab> it will start working. IOW you need to get past the server and share portions fully before file name completion is operative.
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