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Re: Could I use backslash directly as path delimiter on cygwin?


Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 05:39:10AM +0000, Andy Koppe wrote:
>> yuanyun.ken wrote:
>>> cygwin is great, I like it.  But when I want to change directory, I
>>> have to type 'cd D:/dira/dirb' or 'cd D:\\dira\\dirb'.  This is
>>> somewhat inconvenient.
>> <shameless plug> You might like MinTTY, which allows you to drag and
>> drop files into it.  Your example would be inserted as "D:\dira\dirb".
>> See http://code.google.com/p/mintty </shameless plug>
>
> MinTTY is nice but I think people may be missing the point here (or I
> am).  I believe that the OP wants to avoid typing "cd a:\\b\\c" and just
> type "cd a:\b\c" into the bash shell.

Sorry, I quoted the wrong bit of the original post. Here's the relevant part:

> So I can just copy the dir path from windows explore, and paste it in
> cygwin's command line?


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