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Re: associating device names with cygdrive directories
On 8/25/2010 3:32 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 02:47:21PM -0500, Charles D. Russell wrote:
>> On Linux, the mount command reveals the association between filesystem
>> names and /dev/ names, but Cygwin mount doesn't tell.
>
> Is this what you want? (The multiple spaces are really tabs.)
>
> $ for F in /dev/s* ; do echo "$F $(cygpath -w $F)" ; done
> /dev/scd0 \\.\D:
> /dev/scd1 \Device\CdRom1
> /dev/scd2 \Device\CdRom2
<snip>
That's a pretty clever solution. Too bad there is no way to use cygpath
to go the other direction. Ideally, we could do something like:
$ cygpath -t device D:
/dev/scd0
Of course it's hard to justify adding such functionality without a good
use case.
-Jeremy
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