Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:03:58 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Where is cygwin bin directory?
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On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 09:58:18PM +0100, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote:
>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"
>
>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

Referrring to the cygwin /bin directory as /cygdrive/w/cygwin/bin serves
no purpose.

To the OP - just use whatever cygpath options make sense.  It's not that
hard and it certainly doesn't require anything like the gobbledegook
above.

Or, if you just are just curious about what /bin translates to, use mount.

cgf

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