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Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2021 19:40:41 +0900
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Subject: Re: Program files environmental variables
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From: Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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On Tue, 23 Nov 2021 10:52:18 +0100, Csaba Raduly via Cygwin
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2021 at 10:02, john doe via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> >
> > Cygwins,
> >
> > Is there a way to get the value of PROGRAMFILES(x86) and PROGRAMW6432 in
> > Bash:
> >
> 
> $ env | grep PROGRAMFILES
> COMMONPROGRAMFILES=C:\Program Files\Common Files
> PROGRAMFILES=C:\Program Files
> 
> These are the environment variables visible in my Cygwin environment.
> 
> echo "$PROGRAMFILES(x86)" is the equivalent of echo
> "${PROGRAMFILES}(x86)" i.e. the value of $PROGRAMFILES, followed by
> the fixed string "(x86)"
> 
> I tried
> 
> $ echo "${PROGRAMFILES(x86)}"
> $ echo "${PROGRAMFILES\(x86\)}"
> 
> and bash outright refused them ("bad substitution"). So it may not be
> possible to have an environment variable with ()s in its name.


/usr/bin/printenv 'ProgramFiles(x86)'

Lem

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