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Re: Fwd: md5sum using Cygwin in Windows
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:17:50 -0400
- Subject: Re: Fwd: md5sum using Cygwin in Windows
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- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 02:42:49PM -0700, Ben wrote:
>Removed my HTML to send this off...
It is not important for anyone to know this.
>The Ubuntu help says that if you download Cygwin (link:
>https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM), you can follow the
>Linux directions. I'm using the Cygwin shell and it is not working. I
>downloaded the file to C. I type:
>
>cd C:\
>
>So far, so good. The (zippied) file ubutuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso is
>sitting in C:\. So I type:
>
>md5sum ubutuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso
>
>"No such file or directory."
>
>Ah well. Cygwin does not seem to be a very newbie-friendly
>application. "Help cd" offers one a starkly technical little
>paragraph. Incidentally, how does one even go to the Desktop directory
>(which lies at C:\Documents and Settings\Ben\Desktop for me) with
>Cygwin? Whenever you put in a space, Cygwin seems to reject it.
Hmm. Just got a similar question on irc a while ago.
Cygwin doesn't use : or \. Use:
cd "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Ben/Desktop"
And, btw, your "newbie-friendly" comment shows that you apparently have
no idea what Cygwin is and possibly have no idea what Linux is all
about. The project is geared towards people who understand a UNIX(tm)
environment. If that isn't you, then it's hard to see why you're
dabbling with Ubuntu.
cgf
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