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Re: Directory Aliasing
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 17:30:20 -0400
- Subject: Re: Directory Aliasing
- References: <11596212.post@talk.nabble.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 11:33:30AM -0700, LittleTim wrote:
>Hello Everybody:
>
>I don't have a lot of experience using Cygwin:
>
>Problem: I do a lot of work in a directory with a long path name: C:\very
>long path name\My Work
>
>Question: Instead of having to type cd C:\very long path name\My Work
>everytime I want to switch to this directory, is there any way to do
>aliasing? For example, no matter where I am in the file system, typing cd ~
>will take me to my home directory. I've tried to create a symbolic link.
>Of course the symbolic link is only valid in the directory where the
>symbolic link exists, and not from anywhere in the file system.
mkdir /shortdir
mount -b 'c:\very long path name\My Work' /shortdir
cd /shortdir
cgf
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