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MingW and Cygwin create Unix-like directory trees. This page uses the example of BIRCHBINDEV to illustrage how Windows directories correspond to those in MingW and Cygwin.

BIRCHBINDEV on Windows

C:\\Documents and Settings\
   BIRCHBINDEV\
       BIRCHBINDEV\
           admin\
           bin-winxp-32\
           etc...

BIRCHBINDEV in MingW

When you open up a MingW shell it looks like this

BIRCHBINDEV@biolab-xp ~
$ ls -l
total 11510
drwxr-xr-x 2 BIRCHBINDEV Administrators        0 Sep 10  2012 bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 BIRCHBINDEV Administrators 11785566 Aug 30  2012 getbirch.jar
drwxr-xr-x 2 BIRCHBINDEV Administrators        0 Aug 30  2012 getbirch_temp

To go to the BIRCHBINDEV directory:

$ cd '/c/Documents and Settings/BIRCHBINDEV/'
BIRCHBINDEV@biolab-xp /c/Documents and Settings/BIRCHBINDEV

BIRCHBINDEV in Cygwin

To go to the BIRCHBINDEV directory type

BIRCHBINDEV@biolab-xp ~
$ cd /cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/BIRCHBINDEV
BIRCHBINDEV@biolab-xp /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/BIRCHBINDEV

Note: The cd convention of enclosing destination strings in quotes doesn't seem to work in Cygwin. You have to use backslashes to escape blanks.