On 5/20/07, 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 ..."
That's easy: they're exactly the same.
Now for some tricky ones:
1)what does: "cygpath -lpw '/bin/nonexistant:/usr/bin'" do?
2)what's the difference between "cygpath -m ..." and "cygpath -t mixed ..."?
3)what's the difference between:
"cygpath -uuuu -t mixed -t mixed -t unix -t mixed -mmm ..."
and "cygpath -m ..."
Answers follow:
Answers
1)
$ cygpath -lpw '/bin/nonexistant:/usr/bin'
รท;C:\cygwin\bin
^ That's a divided-by symbol there. Some lack of error checking
somewhere, I suppose.
2)
$ cygpath -t mixed .. && cygpath -t mixed -D
C:/cygwin/home/
/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Lev/Desktop
$ cygpath -m .. && cygpath -m -D
C:/cygwin/home/
C:/Documents and Settings/Lev/Desktop
Ie, they're the same for usual paths, but '-t mixed' gives a unix path
for the "system information" options
3) none
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