Re: Newbie Cygdrive questions

[Mike Rushton <mrushton@ptd.net>]

That is good to know about that utility Cygpath.   Maybe I will try it.

What I was doing was going thru some scripts ... changing the paths ... 
clean in up stuff ...
over the years I ended up with a lot of commented out sections of code 
... and testing them.



And this is a different approach that I never would have thought of.

/l/<whatever>

or

/nfs/<whatever>



Thanks.


On 2/6/2014 5:37 PM, David Conrad wrote:
> It may be useful to know, if you do not already, that the cygpath
> utility can be used to convert between Windows and Unix paths.
>
> cygpath -u X:/INBOUND/CWSCRIPTS/myscript.sh
>
> will give you /cygdrive/x/INBOUND/CWSCRIPTS/myscript.sh, and
>
> cygpath -w /cygdrive/x/INBOUND/CWSCRIPTS/myscript.sh
>
> will give you X:\INBOUND\CWSCRIPTS\myscript.sh
>
> You can also use cygpath -m if you prefer forward slashes, even in
> your Windows paths.
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Richard <richard@karmannghia.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, mrushton wrote:
>>>
>>> To access this shared X drive under Cygwin it seems I have to do this :
>>>
>>> /cygdrive/X/INBOUND/CWSCRIPTS/myscript.sh
>>>
>>>
>>> Is this correct ?  Is there a better way ?
>>>
>>> And C: seems to be /cygdrive/C/
>>>
>> A BETTER way?
>>
>> This has nothing per se to do with Cygwin, but, briefly:
>>
>> Standardize all your systems on something YOU can control. For example, I
>> always create a top-level directory called l (that's the letter, not the
>> numeral) which stands for "local", and another called nfs, which simply
>> means a remote mount - could be real nfs or Samba - and then make links
>> within these directories to wherever they need to go. That way, all disk
>> space is available via either:
>>
>> /l/<whatever>
>>
>> or
>>
>> /nfs/<whatever>
>>
>> as appropriate.
>>
>> And there's never any confusion over which is which - and drive letters can
>> be completely avoided as desired, or not.
>>
>> ...All (many!) good System Administrators do things similar to this...
>>
>> Richard
>>
>>
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