Get Cygwin home directory path for current user
Bill Stewart
bstewart@iname.com
Thu Feb 14 20:48:00 GMT 2019
On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 12:49 PM Eric Blake wrote:
> 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"
Ah. I'm not using a Cygwin shell (PowerShell actually). So the
expansion happens before cygpath sees it, which is why it works in a
Cygwin shell but not directly from Windows...
So therefore I can write
dash -c '/bin/cygpath -w ~'
To get it, but this seems a bit roundabout and awkward.
Is there any way to do it more directly from a Windows shell?
Thanks!
Bill
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