you wrote, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

> On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, luke.kendall wrote:
>
>> $ CYGPATH=`cygpath -w /`
>> $ echo $CYGPATH
>> C:\cygwin
>> $ CYGPATH=`cygpath -u "$CYGPATH"`
>> $ echo $CYGPATH
>> /
>>
>> What I really want to get is "C:/cygwin"
>
> $ cygpath -m /
>
>> or "/cygdrive/c/cygwin", in my case.
>
> $ cygpath -m / | sed 's,^\([A-Za-z]\):,/cygdrive/\1,'

That might produce false results, depending on the "mount -c" setting. Here
is a (working/stable?) remedy:

$ cygpath -m / | \
sed "s,^\([A-Za-z]\):,$( \
  mount -p | \
  sed -n '2s/^\([^ ]*\).*/\1/p' \
)/\1,"
/cygdrive/C/Program/Cygwin


/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomputer systems            --72-->

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