Re: cygpath question

[Randall R Schulz]

Robert,

I need to make a slight amendment to what I wrote before. Please see below.


At 22:33 2003-01-23, Randall R Schulz wrote:

...

   $ pwd
   /

   $ cdd C:\My Music

Here's what happens:

cd "`cygpath --unix "C:My Music"`"

I'm guessing your Cygwin root is the same as your C: drive root, so in this case you more or less incidentally get the result you want because your current directory was "/" (Cygwin) and "C:/" (Windows).

I should have tried an experiment. The current directory doesn't matter (nor, in that case, does the relationship between your Cygwin root and any particular Windows directory).

These two are identical:

cd "$(cygpath --unix "D:Documents and Settings")"

cd "$(cygpath --unix "D:\Documents and Settings")"


(I prefer the $( ... ) syntax to the `...` syntax.)


Randall Schulz

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