how-to avoid the typing of the /cygdrive/c/root/dir/of/my/files path in cygwin

export win_data_root_dir=/cygdrive/c/var
for dir in `ls -1 $win_data_root_dir`; do target_path=$win_data_root_dir/$dir ; link_path=/var/$dir ; mkdir -p `dirname $link_path`; unlink $link_path; ln -s "$target_path" "$link_path"; ls -la $link_path; done;
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