Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3DCAFE9C.6040907@etr-usa.com> Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 17:00:28 -0700 From: Warren Young User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin-L Subject: Re: CYGWIN Installer should setup a root environment variable References: <3DC9C265.5030804@pobox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Note: This E-mail was scanned by Declude JunkMail (www.declude.com) for spam. Chris Walters wrote: >> `cygpath -w /` > > This is fine, but how do I use the result in a DOS bat script? The short answer is: Get a real shell. The long answer is: While there may be some hack to trick a Microsoft command shell into setting an environment variable from a command's output, it seems to me that it would be a lot easier to port your BAT file to Bash. There's certainly nothing in the cmd.exe "SET" documentation about doing this. About the only time that only a BAT file will do is for autoexec.bat. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/