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Re: Referencing Files In Bash Using UNC format?
- To: Cygwin <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Referencing Files In Bash Using UNC format?
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna at vinschen dot de>
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 18:33:36 +0100
- References: <38D26374.E3BE2182@vixel.com> <38D26C2A.49224065@veritas.com>
- Reply-To: Cygwin <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
Bob McGowan wrote:
> David White wrote:
> >[...]
> > 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?
> >[...]
> The same format appears to work (for Cygwin 1.0, CD), but you need to
> quote it:
>
> ls '\\system\directory'
As it's usual on U*X systems you may use forward slashes:
ls //system/directory
Corinna
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