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Re: CYGWIN Installer should setup a root environment variable


Chris Walters wrote:
`cygpath -w /`
This is fine, but how do I use the result in a DOS bat script?
The short answer is: Get a real shell.

The long answer is: While there may be some hack to trick a Microsoft command shell into setting an environment variable from a command's output, it seems to me that it would be a lot easier to port your BAT file to Bash. There's certainly nothing in the cmd.exe "SET" documentation about doing this.

About the only time that only a BAT file will do is for autoexec.bat.


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