It's been decades since I first tried Cygwin. At the time I wasn't very impressed, and when I had to try it again I was no more impressed. But Edwin Groothuis suggested that it might be a way to find my modified files for the DxO Optics Pro problem, so I installed it again.
My view hasn't changed. In particular, it still bends the directory hierarchies to suit a Unix-like view of the world. But there's a way to access the bare Microsoft drives . To quote Edwin:
But that doesn't work for me. Once I get past the fact that the shell windows swallow the mouse cursorwhy?all I got was:
$ ls -l c:
ls: cannot access c:: No such file or directory
Further playing around shows very non-Microsoft-like parsing:
$ ls -l c:\
> > ^C
grog@dxo ~
$ ls -l c:\\
total 6580023
drwxr-xr-x 1 grog None 0 Jan 9 2013 $Recycle.Bin
drwxr-xr-x 1 grog None 0 Nov 4 2013 11e1bb6e4e663bcb347d
drwxr-xr-x 1 grog None 0 May 14 2013 Adobe
...
And you can do a cd without this hoop-jumping:
$ ls -l c:
ls: cannot access c:: No such file or directory
grog@dxo ~
$ cd c:
grog@dxo /cygdrive/c
$
So something has special knowledge about this kind of name. What a pain! Still, at least I now have find, which could help me.
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