how to change dir

[Roger Wells]

Mark J. Reed wrote:
> 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:\')"
>
>   
cd c:/windows
works fine, note forward slash

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