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Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2019 01:14:44 +0900
From: Takashi Yano <takashi DOT yano AT nifty DOT ne DOT jp>
To: Bill Stewart <bstewart AT iname DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Get Cygwin home directory path for current user
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On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 16:41:11 -0700 Bill Stewart wrote:
> (?) I understand that the shell does ~ expansion. I am asking for a
> way to get that particular path (forget about the ~ character for the
> time being) without needing to invoke a Cygwin shell in the first
> place. (That was the whole point of the request.)

If you don't want to use "shell", you can:
c:/cygwin/bin/cygpath -w $(c:/cygwin/bin/getent passwd $env:USERNAME | c:/cygwin/bin/cut -d: -f6)
but I'm not sure if you think this is "awkward" as well.

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Takashi Yano <takashi DOT yano AT nifty DOT ne DOT jp>

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