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Re: ls /dev/*
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 10:12:52AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 10:07:41PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 02:55:39PM -0500, Sam Steingold wrote:
>>>
>>>>why isn't /dev a more "usual" directory?
>>>>cd /dev, ls /dev all fail, while
>>>>cat /dev/clipboard works.
>>>
>>>No one has implemented the special handling required for /dev which
>>>would enable things like opendir/readdir or cd to work.
>>
>>Actually I change the cygdrive prefix to dev. Just seems to make sense
>>to me that C: would be /dev/c as apposed to /cygdrive/c, which is longer
>>to type. When I ls /dev I get:
>>
>>$ ls /dev
>>c/ d/ z/
>>
>>A C, D and Z drive (the Z drive is to my backup partition on my Linux box).
>
>While, you are welcome to redefine /cygdrive any way you want, the unix
>paradigm does not put filesystems under /dev. That is for devices.
>
>In any event, this has nothing to do with the actual question. Even if
>this was something that makes sense, it doesn't help the OP meet his
>goals in any way.
Sorry. I should have read further. Apparently the OP just wants *something*
in /dev even if it is not what "should" be there.
I suggest just making the directory and downloading interesting jpeg images
to the directory. That's what I'd do.
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