On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 09:12:47PM -0700, Karl M wrote: >Hi Christopher... > >>From: Christopher Faylor Subject: Re: How to uniformly point to the root >>of a drive? >>Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 21:21:59 -0400 >> >>On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 05:39:21PM -0700, Karl M wrote: >>>Hi All... >>> >>>>From: Christopher Faylor Subject: Re: How to uniformly point to the root >>>>of a drive? >>>>Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 13:36:16 -0400 >>>> >>>>On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 01:27:05PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>>>So it sounds like Brian's method would work then wouldn't it? >>>> >>>>Does this give you what you want, too? >>>> >>>>driveroot=$(cygpath $(cygpath -wm /)/..) >>>> >>>What is the difference between "cygpath -m ..." and "cygpath -wm ..." >> >>Come on! Read the fine manual. >> >It is indeed a fine manual. I did look and -w and -m look to be mutually >exclusive in thier use, but I did find scripts that use -wm, thus my >question.
So, translation: cgf made a typo. The 'w' is not needed. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
