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Re: filenames in the bash shell


At 12:41 PM 10/10/2000, Bryan Zimmer wrote:
>On the whole, I've found everything to be pretty much like Linux, but I have a problem referring to files by their Unix-style pathnames, where the path begins with the mounted root directory (mine is C:\Cygwin). My perl script couldn't find files in my home directory as so specified "/home/bzimmer/filename.txt", it couldn't even verify their existence.
>
>I also have lines in my .bashrc that say "INFOPATH=/usr/info", (and INFODIR=/usr/info, for good measure), but I keep getting the error message that the directory doesn't exist. It doesn't seem to help to use windows-style pathnames either.
>
>Things seem to work find when I use relative paths (../text.txt) but I can't use the absolute filenames. Is there a fix for this? What am I doing wrong?
>
>I am running Cygwin on a Win NT 4.0 workstation, with a FAT32 filesystem. I have the CYGWIN=ntea variable set.
>
>Any answers appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Bryan Zimmer
>bzimmer@arcstp.org



Is it fair to assume that you're using Cygwin versions of tools that have
problems with these paths (i.e. Perl)?

Output from cygcheck -s -v -r would help.



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