Re: cd command doesn't work

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 03:28:42PM -0500, David Feustel wrote:
>The cd command works if I exit ksh and run in bash.

The cd command works pretty much everywhere if you use the right syntax.

cgf

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
>To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
>Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 3:15 PM
>Subject: Re: cd command doesn't work
>
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>> On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 03:10:46PM -0500, David Feustel wrote:
>> >I'm running cygwin 1.0 (cdrom version) on Windows 2000.  from ksh, all
>> >attempts to cd to a different drive fail.  The help info says to do cd
>> >[/D] drive:path.  No combination that I have tried yet works for me.
>> 
>> What "help info" are you talking about?  If you say "help cd" you're
>> probably getting the Windows help for the command, not the ksh version.
>> 
>> ksh uses the same mechanism as any other Cygwin tool.  You type cd /usr
>> to change to /usr and cd /cygdrive/c/foo to change to the foo directory
>> on the c drive.
>> 
>> >Is cd broken? 
>> >Is there a work around?
>> 
>> Yes.  Use the proper syntax.
>> 
>> cgf
>> 
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