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cygwin cygdrive paths and Windows Command Prompt

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Mar 15, 202641315 views
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I'm having a weird issue with cygwin acting inconsistently between installations, specifically scp. I have c:\cygwin\bin in my Windows PATH in both cases. When I run the following command from a Windows Command Prompt, however, I get very different results between the two installations: On the one …

Error Output

scp /cygdrive/c/something.txt User@server:${HOME}/something.txt

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Fix for: cygwin cygdrive paths and Windows Command Prompt

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The correct way to do this is using the mount command: or in your case, restore the default prefix...

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