Re: Two short scripts for Cygwin-Windows interoperation

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Jan  4 23:39, Christian Franke wrote:
> Igor Peshansky wrote:
> >...
> >The point I was making was that maybe we could add another option to
> >cygpath to retrieve the "My Documents" path...  Opinions?
> >  
> 
> Yes, good point. I would suggest:
> 
> -M, --mydocs    output 'My Documents' directory
> 
> and as an extension for still missing folders:
> 
> -F n, --folder=n   output special folder with CSIDL value n (with 0xHEX 
> allowed)
> 
> Examples:
> 
> $ cygpath -M
> /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/USER/My Documents
> 
> $ cygpath -F 5
> /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/USER/My Documents
> 
> $ cygpath -F 0x19
> /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/All Users/Desktop
> 
> $ cygpath -F 0x1a
> /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/USER/Application Data
> 
> $ cygpath -F 0x35
> /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/All Users/My Music
> 
> With a simple wrapper script, all symbolic may be used:
> 
> n="$(sed -n 's,#define CSIDL_'"$1"'\t\([0-9]*\),\1,p' 
> /usr/include/w32api/shlobj.h)"
> cygpath -F ${n:?"$1 not found"}
> 
> 
> Thanks for any comment

http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI

Come on, what did you expect? ;)


Corinna

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