UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello,

How do I navigate to the level ABOVE the home directory?

I have the following structure on my drive, bearing in my I'm using a cygwin port on Windows.

C:\
C:\cygwin
C:\cygwin\bin
C:\cygwin\otherfolders
C:\cygwin\home (the home directory)
C:\cygwin\home\H (my user directory)

So for example, today I compiled a new version of rsync, and keeping in the spirit of trying to use cygwin as much as possible for Unix practice, how would I copy the new rsync.exe from:

C:\cygwin\home\H\rsync.exe
to
C:\cygwin\bin\rsync.exe

When the /bin folder is ABOVE the home directory?

I did it using Windows Explorer, but could I have done it with cygwin? And yes, I'm aware of the /cygdrive/c/ option, would that be the only way?

Thanks.

H.

Yes "/cygdrive" is the way to go

Hi, I got that. Thanks.

But on a 'normal' unix system could it be done? Or would the /home directory by default be above all the drives (similar to 'My computer' in Windows)? How would you access the root of your drives on a normal Unix system?

sorry for my curiosity, it must be getting annoying by now

H.

cd .. will take you one level up the directory hierarchy (i.e. into the parent directory)
cd / will take you to the root directory (the top of the directory hierarchy)

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/

Cheers
ZB

There are two roots, one in the Windows world which really begins with "\\" and one in the cygwin world which begins with "/".

Imagine if your home directory was actually an NFS share. It would be mounted in your file system under "/home" but on the server it would be "/export/home" or similar.