X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 16:42:59 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Christian Franke cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Two short scripts for Cygwin-Windows interoperation In-Reply-To: <459D5852.8010407@t-online.de> Message-ID: References: <459D5852.8010407@t-online.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Christian Franke wrote: > 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" ;-) The point I was making was that maybe we could add another option to cygpath to retrieve the "My Documents" path... Opinions? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Freedom is just another word for "nothing left to lose"... -- Janis Joplin -- 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/