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Re: How to uniformly point to the root of a drive?


Thorsten Kampe wrote:

> is there a way to consistently point (in a script for instance) to the
> root of a removable drive (flash drive)?
> 
> The root could be /cygdrive/g on one computer and on the other
> /cygdrive/f (I have no control of the drive letters). One solution
> would be to install Cygwin to \ (instead of the standard \cygwin) but
> for clarity's sake I would like to keep the Cygwin stuff in a
> directory of its own.

I assume you mean the root directory of the drive on which Cygwin is
installed, i.e. the drive containing /:

echo "root dir of / is $(cygpath "$(cygpath -m / | cut -b1-3)")"

This will fail for UNC paths and so on, but you can check for that I
suppose.  You can use any arbitrary path in place of /, but be sure to
quote as necessary.

Brian

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