cygwin ls command and relative paths

[Dan Kegel]

cathy cobb wrote:
> I know that cygwin is a Unix emulator. I am able to
> use all the commands in cygwin shell that I use on
> UNIX work stations. where as "ls /" command does n't
> take me to the root directory, but it shows some 
> files in a different directory with out showing even
> the current directory contents. 
> 
> To expain in other way:
> 
> Means when I execute any commands in cygwin shell I
> need to give a relative path ../../../ etc to give a
> file name that I refer. It is a pain to do this for
> too long paths as you know ...
> 
> What will be a fix to this problem?

Get used to it, I'm afraid.   / in cygwin-land is
wherever you intalled scygwin in Windows-land.
There's a good reason for this, namely, Windows
has drive letters and no global root.
Thus there *is* no way you could get what you want,
really.

You can use symlinks, though, to make things shorter.
e.g.
   ln -s /cygdrive/c/windows/system winsys
will make it easier to refer to c:\windows\system,
at least in a certain way.
- Dan

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