Wild card to address drives
Hans-Bernhard Bröker
HBBroeker@t-online.de
Thu Jul 18 16:09:00 GMT 2019
Am 18.07.2019 um 10:03 schrieb Fergus Daly:
> I have
> none / cygdrive binary 0 0
> as the only line in the file /etc/fstab to allow for example
> $ ls /h/config.sys
> instead of the long-hand
> $ ls /cygdrive/h/config.sys
And that's precisely your problem. You've now overlaid two mount points
onto /: the cygdrive tree, and the normal Cygwin root mount.
Without this, your command would have worked just fine.
> In Linux I can type something like
> ls /?/ -Ax
> as a wild card to address ALL drives,
Not really, as there is no such thing as "drives" on Linux. The above
will list all directories under / that have single letters as their name
--- whether those be mounted filesystems, or ordinary directories.
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