Questions tagged [subst]
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Substitute: replacement evaluation
Is the first and the second substitution equivalent if the replacement is passed in a variable?
#!/usr/bin/env perl6
use v6;
my $foo = 'switch';
my $t1 = my $t2 = my $t3 = my $t4 = 'this has a $foo in it';
my $replace = prompt( ':' ); #…
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How to mount a substed drive in windows Ubuntu subsystem
My development environment on Windows includes substed folders, i.e. the folder c:\MyBuild may be substed to a drive letter, say t:
In a Ubuntu subsystem terminal, I can bind the folder to a mount, as this
sudo mount --bind /mnt/c/MyBuild…
Totte Karlsson
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Resolve Windows drive letter to a path (subst and network)
I wonder if there is a universal way of resolving a path using a drive letter (such as X:\foo\bar.txt) into its equivalent UNC path, which might be one of the following:
X:\foo\bar.txt if X: is a real drive (i.e. hard disk, USB stick,…
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Getting command line output in VBScript (without writing to files)
I'm using VBScript, and my goal is to be able to substitute a drive letter for a path of my choosing. I need the D drive, and if it's not available I need to check if it's already mapped to the right spot; then notify the user if it's not. I found…
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How to do replicate Window's subst command in Python?
I am trying to map a virtual drive on my windows setup one of the tools I am using does not like the spaces in the filenames.
On the command line, I would do the following
subst l: "c:\Program Files\Complier\version 6.0\bin"
I tried to replicate…
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powershell: wrong symbolic link resolution
i think i found a bug in PS.
i create a new subst'ed drive letter:
C:\> subst k: c:\test
C:\> subst
K:\: => c:\test
but PS tells:
PS C:\> get-item 'K:\' | Format-list | Out-String
Directory:
Name : K:\
Mode : d-----
LinkType …
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How do you retrieve the original location of a mounted path?
In C++, how can I retrieve the location of a mounted drive?
for example, if I have mounted drive s: to c:\temp (using subst in the command line)
"subst c:\temp s:"
how can I get "c:\temp" by passing "s:"
I would also like to know how can it be done…
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Subst drive & folder
Can I use windows command subst to map a drive & folder to another location?
I want to map say the temp folder
c:\foo\bar\temp
to
e:\buildserver\dev
I can easily map the temp directory to e: using
subst e: c:\foo\bar\temp
But how can I also add…
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Using Rundll32 to replicate the function of SUBST
I have been attempting to replicate the function subst.exe (windows app for mapping drives) using rundll32.
I know that DefineDOSDevice is used and I know what parameters to pass but I just can`t get it to work.
Lets just say I want C:\Program Files…
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creating a subst drive from a selection of folders
I am new to the world of programming and trying to make a small script where I can select a folder with a name that will chance and make this selected folder a subst drive.
The code that I already found on this site is pretty good, but it seems that…
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Calling SUBST from Windows batch file
I have problem calling SUBST from a Windows batch file. I want to use one batch to create a virtual drive mapping and a second batch to unmount the drive. However unmounting gives the error message:
The system cannot find the path specified.
Here…
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"Drive already SUBSTed" on deletion of virtual drive in jenkins pipeline on a windows server
I'm trying to create and use virtual drive in my jenkins pipeline (to avoid the limit of 260 character in windows)
I can create virtual drive using the SUBST command but I cannot delete them which cause problems after the first run... Jenkins is…
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cmd - Is it possible to temporarily assign an available drive letter to a local path?
Using cmd on Windows, it is easy to assign a drive letter to a UNC path with pushd:
C:\Windows\> pushd \\server\share\path
Y:\> popd
C:\Windows\>
However I would like to be able to do the same with local paths because it will shorten the file paths…
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subst-if throws error work on tree in Common Lisp
Why am i getting this error:
The value
(2 (2 (2 (2 (2) 2) 2) 2) 2)
is not of type
NUMBER
when binding SB-KERNEL::X
[Condition of type TYPE-ERROR]
when calling the subst-if with the follwoing test function:
(defun 2p (N) (= N…
user4813927
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Windows service fails to start, with generic error
I wrote a trivial NT service using VS2010 and it does install on my XPSP3 dev box just fine, using InstallUtil. However when I run net start TestService I get a generic error:The TestService service failed to start due to the following error:
The…
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