how to change dir

Mark J. Reed markjreed@mail.com
Mon May 5 20:48:00 GMT 2008


On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 4:40 PM, bench33 <bench_warmer2003@yahoo.com> wrote:
>  In bash, how do you change to another directory?
>
>  I see that the only directory I can go is home (c:\cygwin)
>
>  I have other physical drives (d:\). How do I go there?

Cygwin apps (including bash) don't understand drive:paths.  Use

cd /cygdrive/d/

You can let the cygpath utility do the conversion for you:

cd "$(cygpath 'd:\')"

-- 
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com>

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