Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Don Dwiggins Subject: Re: Is it possible to copy a file from anywhere to My Documents with bash cp? Date: 23 Oct 2002 12:13:34 -0700 Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <3B2480653E7D2C4E8AA5699598D691C4230092@xch-se-03.se.nos.bo eing.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20021023095859.01fdfee8@pop3.cris.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.12.247.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035400352 735 207.12.247.2 (23 Oct 2002 19:12:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 19:12:32 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 Randall R Schulz writes: > You should be able to see the contents of your "My Documents" directory with > this command: > % ls -l "$USERPROFILE/My Documents" > Likewise, you can move or copy files to that directory like this: > % cp SomeFile "$USERPROFILE/My Documents" > % mv OtherFile "$USERPROFILE/My Documents" As a final wrinkle, if you're going to do this a lot, you might want to do something like "mount -u "$USERPROFILE/My Documents" /mydocs"; then you can say things like "mv furniture /mydocs". -- Don Dwiggins "Solvitur Ambulando" d.l.dwiggins@computer.org -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/