From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Accessing folders elsewhere than C:\cygwin
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:15:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D541D35.3020901@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A209C0F073A4@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov>
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On 02/10/2011 10:13 AM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> Might the ability to identify cygwin's root be a good
> thing to add to cygpath?
And what's so hard about 'cygpath -w /'?
> Under "System information", one could have an option
>
> -R, --root output cygwin root directory
>
> where
>
> $ cygpath -Rw
> C:\cygwin
Trading / for -R doesn't justify the bloat and burning another short
option character, in my opinion.
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Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-10 17:15 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
2011-02-09 16:39 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-02-10 17:13 ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2011-02-10 17:15 ` Eric Blake [this message]
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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