Mount current directory as a volume in Docker on Windows 10

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Description

I am using Docker version 1.12.5 on Windows 10 via Hyper-V and want to use container executables as commands in the current path. I buil

Answer 1

Command prompt (Cmd.exe)

When the Docker CLI is used from the Windows Cmd.exe, use %cd% to mount the current directory:

echo test > test.txt
docker run --rm -v %cd%:/data busybox ls -ls /data/test.txt

Git Bash (MinGW)

When the Docker CLI is used from the Git Bash (MinGW), mounting the current directory may fail due to a POSIX path conversion: Docker mounted volume adds ;C to end of windows path when translating from linux style path.

Escape the POSIX paths by prefixing with /

To skip the path conversion, POSIX paths have to be prefixed with the slash (/) to have leading double slash (//), including /$(pwd)

touch test.txt
docker run --rm -v /$(pwd):/data busybox ls -la //data/test.txt

Disable the path conversion

Disable the POSIX path conversion in Git Bash (MinGW) by setting MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1 environment variable at the command level

touch test.txt
MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1 docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/data busybox ls -la /data/test.txt

or shell (system) level

export MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1
touch test.txt
docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/data busybox ls -la /data/test.txt