Accessing folders elsewhere than C:\cygwin

Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com
Thu Feb 10 17:15:00 GMT 2011


On 02/10/2011 10:13 AM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> Might the ability to identify cygwin's root be a good
> thing to add to cygpath?

And what's so hard about 'cygpath -w /'?

> Under "System information", one could have an option
> 
>   -R, --root    output cygwin root directory
> 
> where
> 
> $ cygpath -Rw
> C:\cygwin

Trading / for -R doesn't justify the bloat and burning another short
option character, in my opinion.

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Eric Blake   eblake@redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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