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Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 20:41:06 +0100
From: Christian Franke <Christian.Franke@t-online.de>
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Subject: Re: Two short scripts for Cygwin-Windows interoperation
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Igor Peshansky wrote:
> ...
> The Desktop path can be obtained in a general way by "`cygpath -uD`".
> Unfortunately, there is no such ready shortcut for "My Documents", though
> "`cygpath -uH`/$USER/My Documents" should work for most installations of
> the English versions of Windows.
>   

The function SHGetSpecialFolderLocation() used by cygpath obtains (most 
of?) these pathnames from the registry.

To retrieve the cygwin path of "My Documents" folder, use:

$ cygpath -u "$(cat /proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/\
Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/Shell\ Folders/Personal)"

This works also on non-English XP.
It should also work on Vista (where ugly "\Documents and 
Settings\USER\My Documents" is finally replaced by 
"\Users\USER\Documents" ;-)

Christian


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