Directory structuring

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 6/26/2012 6:09 PM, PaulAThompson wrote:
>
> I am very confused about the correct manner of defining directory paths under
> cygwin, perl, and bash. I cannot determine the correct manner. Using the
> cygwin window, I navigate to locations using
>
> cd /cygdrive/c/subdir
>
> Using a bash shell to run a perl process under the shell and passing in a
> directory, I must use a windows-style specification with *nix forward
> slashes

If you're using Cygwin's Perl, then you don't need to worry about
windows-style paths.  If you must, for some reason, use the Windows-native
Perl, then check out 'man cygpath'.  It will handle the file path
conversions for you so you can stick with POSIX paths when you type.


-- 
Larry

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