On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 11:33:30AM -0700, LittleTim wrote: >Hello Everybody: > >I don't have a lot of experience using Cygwin: > >Problem: I do a lot of work in a directory with a long path name: C:\very >long path name\My Work > >Question: Instead of having to type cd C:\very long path name\My Work >everytime I want to switch to this directory, is there any way to do >aliasing? For example, no matter where I am in the file system, typing cd ~ >will take me to my home directory. I've tried to create a symbolic link. >Of course the symbolic link is only valid in the directory where the >symbolic link exists, and not from anywhere in the file system.
mkdir /shortdir mount -b 'c:\very long path name\My Work' /shortdir cd /shortdir 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/
