Re: Get Cygwin home directory path for current user

[Eric Blake <eblake at redhat dot com>]

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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