Can I find where cygwin is installed (for automation purposes)

[Thomas Wolff]

Am 15.04.2020 um 12:51 schrieb Csaba Raduly via Cygwin:
> Hi Paul,
>
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 12:30 PM Paul Moore via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
> wrote:
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>> I'm trying to write an automation script that works on a number of
>> machines. I know that on all machines Cygwin will be installed, but I
>> cannot guarantee that (1) it will be in the same location on each PC,
>> or (2) that it will be in PATH.
>>
>> There's HKCU\Software\Cygwin\Installations, but that seems to use \??
>> prefixes on the PATH, which I'm not sure how to interpret
Running that script within cygwin? `mount | grep " / "`

>
> On my machine, I have a
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> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygwin\setup
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> key, which contains a string value named "rootdir" with the date
> "C:\cygwin64".
>
> Csaba
>