Running Windows native commands (e.g. VOL) from Cygwin

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I have a CentOS box able to access a Windows box's Cygwin via ssh. I want to run ssh me@windowsbox 'vol F:' in a script to capture the name and serial number of a plugged-in USB drive, but I get:

bash: vol: command not found

I would just run the path to vol.exe, but there's no such thing: VOL is built into cmd.exe.

How can I use VOL in Cygwin?

Kev · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-18T21:25:02.597

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Launch cmd.exe from within Cygwin with the /C switch and the command in quotes:

cmd /C "vol F:"

edited Mar 18 '15 at 21:25

answered Jul 24 '13 at 21:57

Kev

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Running Windows native commands (e.g. VOL) from Cygwin

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