On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Csaba Raduly wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote: >> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 4:56 AM, himoundary wrote: >>> >>> I am working in a team where everyone else has a Linux/Mac OS X workstation, >>> but I have a windows workstation. Our project uses a shell script and a java >>> program to automate some deployment/setup etc, which needs to create some >>> directories of the sort /ABC/XYZ. >>> Obviously such paths are not valid in Windows. >>> >> >> You spread falsities about Windows. Try the following in cmd.exe and >> you will be in a shock for your life. >> >> mkdir /ABC/XYZ > > Well, I tried it. Maybe you should have, too. >
I have before but not working today! ;p However rmdir "/abc/xyz" did, note the quotes; the mkdir command did not. The one thing I find in Windows, nothing is consistent. > H:\>mkdir /ABC/XYZ > The syntax of the command is incorrect. > > When it comes to computers, it takes more than that to shock me :) I'm still surprised occasionally but not often. -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple