Get Cygwin home directory path for current user
Eric Blake
eblake@redhat.com
Thu Feb 14 20:23:00 GMT 2019
On 2/14/19 1:40 PM, Bill Stewart wrote:
> According to this:
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42841907/
>
> cygpath -w ~
>
> ...formerly produced to stdout the home directory path for the current user.
>
> This seems not be the case any more: When I run cygpath -w ~, I get just ~.
What shell are you using?
>
> Is this by design? If so, what's the way to programmatically determine
> the Windows path of ~?
Depending on the shell, ~ is expanded to $HOME prior to invoking a
program. But if you want to take the shell's expansions out of the
equation, you could use:
cygpath -w "$HOME"
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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226
Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
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