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RE: Where is cygwin bin directory?
- From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen" <_garbage_collector_ at telia dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 21:58:18 +0100
- Subject: RE: Where is cygwin bin directory?
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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