Re: how to change dir

2008-05-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 08:13:27PM -0400, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: Lee Maschmeyer wrote: Or you can use the Cygwin mount command. It took me several years(!) to realize the power of this utility. You need do it only once because they're permanent until you change them: cd 'x:\any

Re: how to change dir

2008-05-06 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 08:13:27PM -0400, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: cd 'x:\any windows\path will also\work' Note that this will give you a warning in Cygwin 1.7 since you are using non-POSIX path names. I do hope there will be an option with an alternative

Re: how to change dir

2008-05-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 01:32:47PM -0400, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 08:13:27PM -0400, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: cd 'x:\any windows\path will also\work' Note that this will give you a warning in Cygwin 1.7 since you are using non-POSIX path

Re: how to change dir POSIX

2008-05-06 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
Christopher Faylor wrote: Note that this will give you a warning in Cygwin 1.7 since you are using non-POSIX path names. I do hope there will be an option with an alternative environment variable setting that will direct the warning to /dev/null ? You could try it and see:

how to change dir

2008-05-05 Thread bench33
In bash, how do you change to another directory? I see that the only directory I can go is home (c:\cygwin) I have other physical drives (d:\). How do I go there? Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/how-to-change-dir-tp17070344p17070344.html Sent from the Cygwin

Re: how to change dir

2008-05-05 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 4:40 PM, bench33 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In bash, how do you change to another directory? I see that the only directory I can go is home (c:\cygwin) I have other physical drives (d:\). How do I go there? Cygwin apps (including bash) don't understand drive:paths.

Re: how to change dir

2008-05-05 Thread Roger Wells
Mark J. Reed wrote: On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 4:40 PM, bench33 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In bash, how do you change to another directory? I see that the only directory I can go is home (c:\cygwin) I have other physical drives (d:\). How do I go there? Cygwin apps (including bash)

Re: how to change dir

2008-05-05 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
Or you can use the Cygwin mount command. It took me several years(!) to realize the power of this utility. You need do it only once because they're permanent until you change them: mount d:\ /d cd /d By the way, c:\cygwin is /. /home is c:\cygwin\home\your_ID -- Lee Maschmeyer Computing

Re: how to change dir

2008-05-05 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
Lee Maschmeyer wrote: Or you can use the Cygwin mount command. It took me several years(!) to realize the power of this utility. You need do it only once because they're permanent until you change them: cd 'x:\any windows\path will also\work' I do it all the time when switching between a

Re: how to change dir

2008-05-05 Thread Mark J. Reed
Ok, so I was totally wrong about Windows paths not working. I guess the OP was running into quoting issues. So the answer: put single quotes around the pathname when using it in bash. On 5/5/08, Lee D. Rothstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lee Maschmeyer wrote: Or you can use the Cygwin mount

Re: how to change dir

2008-05-05 Thread bench33
thank you so much everyone!!! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/how-to-change-dir-tp17070344p17071546.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http

Re: how to change dir

2008-05-05 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Lee D. Rothstein wrote: | cd 'x:\any windows\path will also\work' Or you can escape the backslashes and spaces. e.g.: cd x:\\any\ windows\\path\ will\ also\\work Yaakov -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Using