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Subject: Re: Can I find where cygwin is installed (for automation purposes)
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From: Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>
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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 14:42:26 +0200
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Am 15.04.2020 um 12:51 schrieb Csaba Raduly via Cygwin:
> Hi Paul,
>
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 12:30 PM Paul Moore via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to write an automation script that works on a number of
>> machines. I know that on all machines Cygwin will be installed, but I
>> cannot guarantee that (1) it will be in the same location on each PC,
>> or (2) that it will be in PATH.
>>
>> There's HKCU\Software\Cygwin\Installations, but that seems to use \??
>> prefixes on the PATH, which I'm not sure how to interpret
Running that script within cygwin? `mount | grep " / "`

>
> On my machine, I have a
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygwin\setup
>
> key, which contains a string value named "rootdir" with the date
> "C:\cygwin64".
>
> Csaba
>

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