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


Hi Christopher...

From: Christopher Faylor Subject: Re: How to uniformly point to the root of a drive?
Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 21:21:59 -0400


On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 05:39:21PM -0700, Karl M wrote:
>Hi All...
>
>>From: Christopher Faylor Subject: Re: How to uniformly point to the root
>>of a drive?
>>Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 13:36:16 -0400
>>
>>On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 01:27:05PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>So it sounds like Brian's method would work then wouldn't it?
>>
>>Does this give you what you want, too?
>>
>>driveroot=$(cygpath $(cygpath -wm /)/..)
>>
>What is the difference between "cygpath -m ..." and "cygpath -wm ..."

Come on! Read the fine manual.

It is indeed a fine manual. I did look and -w and -m look to be mutually exclusive in thier use, but I did find scripts that use -wm, thus my question.

Thanks,

...Karl

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