On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 8:43 PM Brian Inglis <brian.ing...@shaw.ca> wrote: > > On 2023-08-07 10:52, Martin Wege via Cygwin wrote: > > What is the official cygwin way to find a free drive letter, which can > > be used in a script to mount a drive? > > Just use the Windows UNC network path directly on Cygwin with '/' not '\'. > > For Windows, it may still be NET USE * \\... but have not used it in decades! > > Cygwin should pick it up and automount it under /proc/cygdrive/?/ but see > disclaimer above.
So it would be a valid solution in bash to loop from a-z in /proc/cygdrive/$letter/ and see whether this is a dir, right? Thanks, Martin -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
