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From:	"Elfyn McBratney" <elfyn-cygwin AT exposure DOT org DOT uk>
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	"andrew brian clegg" <a DOT clegg AT mail DOT cryst DOT bbk DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject:	Re: Windows volume labels
Date:	Wed, 23 Apr 2003 15:10:44 +0100
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> Hi folks,
>
> Apologies if this is well-documented but I can't find an answer in the
> usual places.
>
> Is there a cygwin-friendly way of retrieving the volume label for a
> particular drive (or for all drives) in e.g. a perl or shell script? Short
> of running Windows' dir.exe on the appropriate drive and parsing the
> result!
>
> Or would I have to use the Windows API?

IIRC, there isn't. Wouldn't be hard to do though, just use the
GetVolumeInformation() Win32 API call.

Elfyn


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