How to navigate to a directory in C:\ with Cygwin?

Question

I\'m trying to install PyQt4 so I can mess around with it. The installation guide said I had to install Sip. The last step to installing Sip is to use the make install

Answer 1

Define a variable in .bashrc :

export C=/cygdrive/c

then you can use

cd $C/

and the tab autocompletes correctly (please include the / at the end)

Answer 2

The one I like is: cd C:

To have linux like feel then do:

ln -s /cygdrive/c/folder ~/folder

and use this like: ~/folder/..

Answer 3

You already accepted an answer, but I just thought I'd mention that the following also works in Cygwin:

cd "C:\Foo"

I think the cd /cygdrive/c method is better, but sometimes it's useful to know that you can do this too.

Answer 4

You can just use

cd C:/Users/../..

Answer 5

you can try this

/cygdrive/c/directoryname

Answer 6

On a related note, you may also like:

shopt -s autocd

This allows you to cd a dir by just typing in the dir

[user@host ~]$ /cygdrive/d
cd /cygdrive/d
[user@host /cygdrive/d]$ 

To make is persistent you should add it to your ~/.bashrc