cd command doesn't work

David Feustel dfeustel@mindspring.com
Sat Jan 27 12:40:00 GMT 2001


Are any of  cd /D f:/budne or cd /D f:budne or cd f:budne or cd f:/budne
incorrect?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: cd command doesn't work


> On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 03:28:42PM -0500, David Feustel wrote:
> >The cd command works if I exit ksh and run in bash.
>
> The cd command works pretty much everywhere if you use the right syntax.
>
> cgf
>
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
> >To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
> >Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 3:15 PM
> >Subject: Re: cd command doesn't work
> >
> >
> >> On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 03:10:46PM -0500, David Feustel wrote:
> >> >I'm running cygwin 1.0 (cdrom version) on Windows 2000.  from ksh, all
> >> >attempts to cd to a different drive fail.  The help info says to do cd
> >> >[/D] drive:path.  No combination that I have tried yet works for me.
> >>
> >> What "help info" are you talking about?  If you say "help cd" you're
> >> probably getting the Windows help for the command, not the ksh version.
> >>
> >> ksh uses the same mechanism as any other Cygwin tool.  You type cd /usr
> >> to change to /usr and cd /cygdrive/c/foo to change to the foo directory
> >> on the c drive.
> >>
> >> >Is cd broken?
> >> >Is there a work around?
> >>
> >> Yes.  Use the proper syntax.
> >>
> >> cgf
> >>
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