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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 10:28:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Systemtechnik cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: "regtool 1.8" on "cygwin 1.5.10": Recursively remove registry keys In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <27D63A28-D17A-11D8-98E6-000393CE9342@kreisbote.de> <20040709091658.GC6590@cygbert.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Systemtechnik wrote: > >> it seems that regtool cannot remove keys in registry if it's "not > >> empty". I have to remove all subkeys/values first, otherwise i get an > >> "Error (5) access denied". Is this true, or is there a way to remove > >> whole "trees" from the registry ? > > > > AFAICS, regtool has no "recursive" option. Patches welcome. See > > Maybe i write some kind to "dir-crawler" in perl/shell to do this... Try "find -depth"... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/