cd'ing to a shortcut

Michael Weiser michael@weiser.saale-net.de
Thu Sep 17 07:14:00 GMT 1998


Hello Jose, you wrote:
>In my home, I added a shortcut to a directory that I use a lot.
>How can I change to it from bash?  When I cd to the shortcut name,
You simply cannot cd into Windows shortcuts because cygwin32 doesn't
know about .lnk files and their magic. But you can accomplish the same
by creating a link using 'ln -s <existing file> <name of link>' for
example.
-- 
bye, Michael
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