From: Greg Chicares <gchicares@sbcglobal.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Accessing folders elsewhere than C:\cygwin
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:38:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D52B4D3.2040102@sbcglobal.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D52A7DD.7080208@bonhard.uklinux.net>
On 2011-02-09 14:42Z, Fergus wrote:
> I have Cygwin mounted conventionally under Q:\cygwin.
> I would like to access files under Q:\else.
> But (for example) ls ../../.. only ever attains \cygwin (and lower).
> I can use ls /cygdrive/q/else/ (and lower) but this means knowing the
> drive name (in this case Q:)
> I don't much want to change mount points which are currently
> conventionally defined.
> Is there a way I can get to Q:\else without knowing the drive name Q:?
ls `cygpath -m /`/../else
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-09 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-09 14:46 Fergus
2011-02-09 15:38 ` Greg Chicares [this message]
2011-02-09 16:39 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-02-10 17:13 ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2011-02-10 17:15 ` Eric Blake
2011-02-10 20:23 ` RISINGP1
2011-02-10 20:36 ` Christopher Faylor
2011-02-10 21:16 ` RISINGP1
2011-02-09 15:50 ` Jeremy Bopp
2011-02-09 15:53 ` Jeremy Bopp
2011-02-09 15:53 ` Andrew Schulman
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