Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: kulack@us.ibm.com Importance: High Subject: Re: Strange cd/CDPATH behavior To: "Erik Nolte" Cc: X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.3 (Intl) 21 March 2000 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 12:12:32 -0500 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on d27ml103/27/M/IBM(Release 5.0.4 |June 8, 2000) at 09/26/2000 12:12:34 PM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > The obvious answer is to stop using DOS style paths with cygwin cd's. > Unfortunately, what I'm really doing is "cd $SRC_PATH" where SRC_PATH is > "W:/src". SRC_PATH must be a DOS style path to keep javac and other > windows-based software happy (they can't grok paths without drive letters). Use cygpath... >cygpath -u -p c:/ / In your example, something like: cd $(cygpath -u -p $SRC_PATH) would probably work. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com