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Re: How to uniformly point to the root of a drive?
- From: "Karl M" <karlm30 at hotmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 22:15:30 -0700
- Subject: Re: How to uniformly point to the root of a drive?
- Bcc:
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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