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Re: How can I abbreviate /cygdrive/DRIVELETTER ?
- From: Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria at Salira dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 15:20:09 -0800
- Subject: Re: How can I abbreviate /cygdrive/DRIVELETTER ?
- References: <13016.1042722817@www63.gmx.net>
svartsjel@gmx.net wrote:
Hi everyone!
As I often access different drives from within the bash I'm wondering
if there's a quicker way to get on, say, drive l (a network drive)
than entering 'cd /cygdrive/l'? I alias'd '/cygdrive/l' to 'l' which
works fine for cd, but not for commands like chmod, cp, mv etc. Among
others I'd like to use the automatic command line completion which
doesn't work for /cygdrive/... either.
Any suggestions?
I've long since changed the cygdrive prefix to /dev. Seemed like a
natural place to put it and it's fairly short. Never encountered a problem.
However for cd'ing to a common location I tend to use environment
variables such as:
$ export src="//server/share/path/to/src/file"
Then do things like cd $src. Normally, important areas are set up in my
startup scripts. The nice thing is that if you wanted to say "more" a
file that works to, with file name completion as in:
$ more $src/a/sub<tab>
Changes to
$ more //server/share/path/to/src/file/a/subdirectory.
Oh, and I also tend to use UNC names instead of mounting drive letters.
So even if one did
$ net use L: \\\\server\\share\\path\\to\\src\\file
I would still tend to use the UNC name of
//server/share/path/to/src/file or $src. One reason for this is that one
persons L: drive may be another server/share all together on another
desktop machine. With UNC names there is no ambiguity.
Note that while file name completion doesn't work on just a /cydri<tab>
it will work after /cygdrive. Similarly filename completion does not
work on //server/sha<tab> but if you type //server/share/pa<tab> it will
start working. IOW you need to get past the server and share portions
fully before file name completion is operative.
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