From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8178 invoked by alias); 26 Jun 2012 22:09:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 8169 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Jun 2012 22:09:49 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FREEMAIL_FROM,NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from sam.nabble.com (HELO sam.nabble.com) (216.139.236.26) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:09:24 +0000 Received: from telerig.nabble.com ([192.168.236.162]) by sam.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Sjdwp-0006yR-RR for cygwin@cygwin.com; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 15:09:23 -0700 Message-ID: <34075389.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:09:00 -0000 From: PaulAThompson To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Directory structuring MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-06/txt/msg00493.txt.bz2 I am very confused about the correct manner of defining directory paths under cygwin, perl, and bash. I cannot determine the correct manner. Using the cygwin window, I navigate to locations using cd /cygdrive/c/subdir Using a bash shell to run a perl process under the shell and passing in a directory, I must use a windows-style specification with *nix forward slashes c:/subdir I have tried a number of manner of using cd within the bash shell to change directories without any success Is there a simple guide to the path specifications? This seems simple, but I cannot figure out the correct specification Within the bash shell, I have tried cd /cygdrive/c/subdir cd "/cygdrive/c/subdir" cd c:/subdir cd "c:/subdir" None of these work -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Directory-structuring-tp34075389p34075389.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple