cygwin - file copy to UNC share
First, I know absolutely nothing about CYGWIN so bear with me...
Our developers need to procure some text dumps from our DBAs. They work with Oracle on Windows via a CYGWIN environment, and kornshell.
Question: How can we use kornshell/cygwin to copy an old fashioned text file to a standard Windows network share (UNC address)?
Note: There is a workaround we have discussed, where the DBAs can drop the text files in a local temp folder, and then setup a Windows Task to copy/move the text file to a UNC address. We would like to avoid this kluge.
Answer
UNC paths are mapped to Cygwin paths by replacing \ characters with / characters.
For example, a file that appears in Windows as
\\server\dir1\dir2\foo.txt
should appear in Cygwin as:
//server/dir1/dir2/foo.txt
If that doesn't work (it should), you can also map a drive letter to a UNC path. For example, if you map \\server\dir1 to S:\, then the same file (S:\dir2\foo.txt) should appear in Cygwin as /cygdrive/s/dir2/foo.txt.
In short, a Cygwin command can treat a directory with a UNC path as an ordinary directory.