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Re: Is it possible to copy a file from anywhere to My Documents with bash cp?
- From: Don Dwiggins <dond at advancedmp dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: 23 Oct 2002 12:13:34 -0700
- Subject: Re: Is it possible to copy a file from anywhere to My Documents with bash cp?
- References: <3B2480653E7D2C4E8AA5699598D691C4230092@xch-se-03.se.nos.bo eing.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20021023095859.01fdfee8@pop3.cris.com>
Randall R Schulz writes:
> You should be able to see the contents of your "My Documents" directory with
> this command:
> % ls -l "$USERPROFILE/My Documents"
> Likewise, you can move or copy files to that directory like this:
> % cp SomeFile "$USERPROFILE/My Documents"
> % mv OtherFile "$USERPROFILE/My Documents"
As a final wrinkle, if you're going to do this a lot, you might want to do
something like "mount -u "$USERPROFILE/My Documents" /mydocs"; then you can
say things like "mv furniture /mydocs".
--
Don Dwiggins "Solvitur Ambulando"
d.l.dwiggins@computer.org
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