How to uniformly point to the root of a drive?

Karl M karlm30@hotmail.com
Mon May 21 13:25:00 GMT 2007


Hi Christopher...

>From: Christopher Faylor Subject: Re: How to uniformly point to the root of 
>a drive?
>Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 00:15:42 -0400
>
>On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 09:12:47PM -0700, Karl M wrote:
> >Hi Christopher...
> >
> >>From: Christopher Faylor Subject: Re: How to uniformly point to the root
> >>of a drive?
> >>Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 21:21:59 -0400
> >>
> >>On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 05:39:21PM -0700, Karl M wrote:
> >>>Hi All...
> >>>
> >>>>From: Christopher Faylor Subject: Re: How to uniformly point to the 
>root
> >>>>of a drive?
> >>>>Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 13:36:16 -0400
> >>>>
> >>>>On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 01:27:05PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>>>>So it sounds like Brian's method would work then wouldn't it?
> >>>>
> >>>>Does this give you what you want, too?
> >>>>
> >>>>driveroot=$(cygpath $(cygpath -wm /)/..)
> >>>>
> >>>What is the difference between "cygpath -m ..." and "cygpath -wm ..."
> >>
> >>Come on!  Read the fine manual.
> >>
> >It is indeed a fine manual. I did look and -w and -m look to be mutually
> >exclusive in thier use, but I did find scripts that use -wm, thus my
> >question.
>
>So, translation: cgf made a typo.  The 'w' is not needed.
>
However, there are scripts (google "cygpath -wm") out there.

:-)

...Karl

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