I agree with Achim. Don't use Microsoft Windows paths. Cygwin has a function called cygpath which is very handy to use to convert paths and use in zsh and other shell scripts
In zsh, using zsh syntax, I use it like this: Convert the first argument to a micrsoft window format pathname winpath=$(cygpath -w $1) or to convert a Windows formatted pathname to unix like do: fname=$(cygpath -w ${windows-type-ifname}) a hardcoded filename would be fname=$(cygpath -w ${C:\miscrosoft\windows-type-ifname.abc}) * you may need to quote the flename to escape : or \.... Thomas Deinhamer <tha...@gmail.com> wrote: >.... > I'm new to Cygwin, new to this newsgroup too. ;) > > I'm running Cygwin and using the zsh shell. > > In the .zshrc file I got these lines: > alias vboxmanage=VBoxManage > vboxmanage setproperty machinefolder "C:\Users\$USER\VirtualBox VMs\" > > When I try to boot a VM using vagrant (which > uses vboxmanage internally I think) sometimes > $USER is not resolved to the real username. > > Instead vboxmanage creates a new machinefolder > on C:/ which is then called "Users$USER" and > inside this folder there is the folder "VirtualBox VMs", > so the wrong path is "C:\Users$USER\VirtualBox VMs\". > > How could that be? Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. > > Do I need to escape the backslashes or is > there anything else I need to take care of? > > I'm wondering why it only fails sometimes. > > Thanks a lot, > Thomas -- 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