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In comp.unix.shell Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> wrote:
> Ben <bgold12@gmail.com> writes:
> > Hey, I'm used to working with Windows (and using Command Prompt for my
> > "shell"), but I've recently been switching to using cygwin and bash.
> > The problem is, I really don't like having to go to /cygdrive/c to get
> > the actual Windows root, and although I played a bit with setting the
> > prefix to /c, I still would prefer to have the cygwin root "/"
> > coincide with the Windows root "C:".
> >
> > Currently I have the cygwin installation on the root ("C:"), which is
> > working perfectly, but I'd rather have the cygwin installation on C:
> > \cygwin. I've tried doing that and mounting "C:" on "/", which seems
> > to work, but it causes several bad side effects, like I can't get g++
> > to work, and I can't view any man pages ("Warning: cannot open
> > configuration file /usr/share/misc/man.conf"), etc. Does anyone have
> > any suggestions for how I can get this to work? Thanks.
> 
> Take a look at question 2.4 of the Cygwin FAQ,
> <http://www.cygwin.com/faq/>.

I wouldn't install Cygwin in C:\ because of that FAQ answer, but there
are some things you can do to avoid having to type /cygdrive/c all the
time.  One is that you can create an alias like this,

    alias cd-c='cd /cygdrive/c'

Another is that you can set the $CDPATH variable like this,

    export CDPATH=.:$HOME:/cygdrive/c

so that when you type "cd" followed by a directory name, bash will
search for that name first in the current directory, then in your $HOME
directory, then in /cygdrive/c.  I suppose you could also define a
variable, $C, like this,

    export C=/cygdrive/c

and then cd to directories under C:\ like this:

    cd $C/Program\ Files

I hadn't tried that last one before, but that works really well, because
it allows bash to do filename completion.  That is, if you type

    cd $C/Prog

and hit Tab, bash replaces that string on the command line with this
one:

    cd /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/

-- 
Gary Johnson