Strange cd/CDPATH behavior

kulack@us.ibm.com kulack@us.ibm.com
Tue Sep 26 10:11:00 GMT 2000


> The obvious answer is to stop using DOS style paths with cygwin cd's.
> Unfortunately, what I'm really doing is "cd $SRC_PATH" where SRC_PATH is
> "W:/src".  SRC_PATH must be a DOS style path to keep javac and other
> windows-based software happy (they can't grok paths without drive
letters).

Use cygpath...
>cygpath -u -p c:/
/

In your example, something like:
cd $(cygpath -u -p $SRC_PATH)
would probably work.




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