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Wednesday, January 18, 2006

How to get to your C drive on cygwin

I always forget how to access the C drive outside of the "fake" root cygwin gives you. It's /cygdrive/c, even though cygdrive isn't listed in ls /.

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07:12 (utc-6)

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You can cd C:/, and it will DTRT. In fact, I added to my bashrc on cygwin (I'm normally a zsh user but I use bash on cygwin to remind myself I'm in Kansas, not Oz) --

for d in c d e f g h i [...] z ; do 

    alias $d: cd /cygdrive/$d 

    alias `echo $d | tr a-z A-Z`: cd /cygdrive/$d

done

∴ dbt | 20-Jan-2006 12:31pm est | http://meat.net/ | #9029

You can cd C:/, and it will DTRT.

Thanks for the info.

∴ Keith | 22-Jan-2006 12:37pm est | http://keithdevens.com/ | #9040

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