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"Voris, Ben via Cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> · Wed, 19 Jul 2023 17:20:31 +0000

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Takashi Yano <takashi DOT yano AT nifty DOT ne DOT jp>
> Sent: 19 July 2023 03:15
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Cc: Orit Heimer <heimer DOT orit AT gmail DOT com>
> Subject: Re: Cygwin64 does not show my desktop directories
> 
> On Wed, 19 Jul 2023 11:52:31 +0300
> Orit Heimer wrote:
> > Hello to all,
> > I am new to Cygwin64 and encountered a problem.
> > I am using a Windows 10.
> > I try to get cygwin64 to show my desktop directories.
> > I use the following command to change to this directory:
> > *cd /cygdrive/c/Users/Default/Desktop*
> > But when I then use *ls* I get nothing.
> > I suspect this is a permission problem, but I failed to overcome it.
> 
> The directory you cd'ed is not correct.
> Use:
> /cygdrive/c/Users/$USER/Desktop
> 
> --
> Takashi Yano <takashi DOT yano AT nifty DOT ne DOT jp>

If you can "cd" to a directory and "ls" shows it empty, permissions
are unlikely to be the problem.

Though the original example used "C:", the Windows desktop need not
be on the C: drive. Assuming you're using bash, a more general command
is:

cd "${USERPROFILE}/Desktop"

- Quoted because doing that helps to remind me that its safer. 
- ${USERPROFILE} because it includes the Windows drive.
- "Desktop" instead of "desktop" because, though case-sensitivity is
  usually not enabled, the directory name is "Desktop".

Also, it is possible that the directory that Windows Explorer shows
as your desktop is something entirely different. For example, if you
use OneDrive to mirror your desktop, the directory that Windows
Explorer shows is "${OneDrive}/Desktop". And, at least on my system,
Here, the quotes are necessary.

I believe that OneDrive isn't the only thing that can change the
"real" location of what Windows Explorer shows:

The following command should always work but will emit
"bash: warning: command substitution: ignored null byte in input".
In case email makes a mess of the command, it is 128 characters.

ls -ld "$(cat "/proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/User Shell Folders/Desktop")"

If you don't like to see the warning and you want to have a variable
that holds the desktop directory name, this works. Again, to help in
case email makes a mess of it, the command is 202 characters.

IFS= read -r -d '' WINDOWS_DESKTOP < "/proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/User Shell Folders/Desktop" && WINDOWS_DESKTOP="$(cygpath "${WINDOWS_DESKTOP}")"

You can use the variable, like so:

ls -ld "${WINDOWS_DESKTOP}"

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To:	Takashi Yano <takashi DOT yano AT nifty DOT ne DOT jp>,
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CC:	Orit Heimer <heimer DOT orit AT gmail DOT com>
Subject:	RE: Cygwin64 does not show my desktop directories
Thread-Topic:	Cygwin64 does not show my desktop directories
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