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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Can you navigate ABOVE the home directory? Post 302121439 by patwa on Wednesday 13th of June 2007 09:59:21 PM
Old 06-13-2007
Can you navigate ABOVE the home directory?

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.
 

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