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Subject: RE: Where is cygwin bin directory?
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 21:58:18 +0100
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cgf wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 07:20:26PM +0100, Lennart Borgman wrote:
>> Is the path to Cygwin bin directory available in windows registry?
>> 
>> It would be nice if it were there since that would make it easier to
>> use Cygwin from other programs.
> 
> "man cygpath"
> "man mount"
> 
> cgf

Deciphered:

- Windows style path
$ cygpath -aw /bin

Output, e.g: W:\cygwin\bin

- Cygwin style path
$ echo "$(cygpath -am /bin)" | \
sed -re 's/^(..)(.*)$/\1;\2;-/' | \
(IFS=";" read drive path garbage; \
echo "$(cygpath -au "$drive")$path" )

Output, e.g: /cygdrive/w/cygwin/bin


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