Re: cygwin ls command and relative paths

[cathy cobb <cathy_vm2000 at yahoo dot com>]

Thanks for the detailed info.

How about the relative path issue? I don't want to
type the whole path when I refer to differnt files
from my version control system(clearcase views).

is there any way to achieve this?


--- Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com> wrote:
> cathy cobb wrote:
> > I know that cygwin is a Unix emulator. I am able
> to
> > use all the commands in cygwin shell that I use on
> > UNIX work stations. where as "ls /" command does
> n't
> > take me to the root directory, but it shows some 
> > files in a different directory with out showing
> even
> > the current directory contents. 
> > 
> > To expain in other way:
> > 
> > Means when I execute any commands in cygwin shell
> I
> > need to give a relative path ../../../ etc to give
> a
> > file name that I refer. It is a pain to do this
> for
> > too long paths as you know ...
> > 
> > What will be a fix to this problem?
> 
> Get used to it, I'm afraid.   / in cygwin-land is
> wherever you intalled scygwin in Windows-land.
> There's a good reason for this, namely, Windows
> has drive letters and no global root.
> Thus there *is* no way you could get what you want,
> really.
> 
> You can use symlinks, though, to make things
> shorter.
> e.g.
>    ln -s /cygdrive/c/windows/system winsys
> will make it easier to refer to c:\windows\system,
> at least in a certain way.
> - Dan
> 
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