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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
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