Issuing commands at the command prompt

Fergus fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net
Thu Nov 19 14:59:00 GMT 2009


It is sometimes convenient to issue Cygwin commands at the Windows 
command prompt, without all the accompanying paraphernalia of formal 
setup, installation, mounting, etc. There are lots of examples (cat, 
diff, grep, md5sum, find, cmp, joe). As well as being convenient, it is 
easy, as long as all required .dll's are co-located with the .exe's, and 
the directory added to the Windows path.
The "mount" command is included in this useful list. In [1.5] you can 
type "mount  -c /" at the command prompt, providing a nice shorthand to 
access different drives. (Actually "mount -buc /".) In [1.7] the command 
generates no error message but in fact fails*, the cygdrive prefix 
remaining unaltered. I know the mount conventions in [1.5] and [1.7] are 
very different but is there any reason in principle why this could not 
be made to work in [1.7] as it does in [1.5]?
*It works directly, if prefaced by the command bash to induce a bash 
shell, but this significantly detracts from its immediacy and therefore 
usefulness.
Fergus



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