Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <38D26C2A.49224065@veritas.com> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 09:32:26 -0800 From: Bob McGowan Organization: VERITAS Software X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David White CC: Cygwin Subject: Re: Referencing Files In Bash Using UNC format? References: <38D26374.E3BE2182@vixel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit David White wrote: > > Any pointers are appreciated... > > I want to make references from bash on NT to a file that is on a shared > drive on a remote system. In a DOS box, I would use the UNC format > \\computername\sharename\path\file.ext to get at this file. Is there a > special cygnus format for this sort of thing? > > Thanks in advance, > > David > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com The same format appears to work (for Cygwin 1.0, CD), but you need to quote it: ls '\\system\directory' There are probably some restrictions, such as needing to be in the same domain... -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software rmcgowan@veritas.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com