January 1, 2010 — In cygwin it can be a pain to change to a Windows directory like C:\Users\breck\Documents\My Dropbox.
I made a small bash script called wcd that makes it easier.
#!/bin/bash
echo $1
newpath=$(echo $1 | sed 's|\\|/|g' | sed 's|:||g' | sed 's|^C|/cygdrive/c|')
echo $newpath
cd "$newpath"
The echos are just for debugging--I'm kind of new to bash scripting. Feel free to remove.
Make this file executable and add an alias into your bash_profile:
alias wcd="source ~/wcd"
Now you can just type(or actually copy/paste) something like this:
wcd "C:\Users\breck\Documents\My Dropbox"
...and that will take you to the Windows directory.
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