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absolute and relative paths in CYGWIN

are they same or completely different? relative path works when youre in a folder and youre trying to go 'back' but absolute paths you have to type out the full directory

is there a shorter way around absolute paths rather than typing out the whole directory path everytime?

Solution

  • the absolute and relative paths are not peculiar of Cygwin. It works in the same way on Unix/Linux and similar in Windows

    of course the relative depends from where you are

    $ cd /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/9.3.0/
$ pwd
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/9.3.0
$ cd include
$ pwd
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/9.3.0/include

    but

    $ cd /usr
$ pwd
/usr
$ cd include
$ pwd
/usr/include

    you can use PWD or other variables to short the absolute path

    $ cd /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/9.3.0/
$ pwd
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/9.3.0
$ echo $PWD
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/9.3.0
$ cd $PWD/include
$ pwd
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/9.3.0/include