Maybe I've just had a long week but I can't seem to get this to work: alias pathw='echo `cygpath -w "$@"`' pathw "/cygdrive/g/" I also tried: alias pathw='echo $(cygpath -w "$@")' cygpath just yells at me that I'm doing something wrong. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple