What differs win-bash from cygwin-bash?
First of all, you should keep in mind that win-bash is based on a old version of bash (1.14.2) while cygwin-bash is more or less up to date. One important difference is the handling of drives: cygwin uses its installation directory as root dir and links all drives in the pseudo subdir /cygdrive. win-bash uses a diffent method: drives are included in paths, like on windows (e.g. c:/Winnt/System32). The root directory ‘/ is mapped to the root directory of the current drive. Examples: • ls c:/winnt – shows the content of the directory c:/winnt • cd c:/; ls /winnt – changes current drive to c: and shows the content of the directory c:/winnt • cd d:/; ls /winnt – changes current drive to d: and shows the content of the directory d:/winnt There are some other differences, most of them have been added to simplify the usage of existing un*x shell scripts: • If a shell script starts with an interpreter specification like #!/path/interpreter, the interpreter is searched in the PATH environment i
