Uhh-oh, I used a non-standard directory for install

Vin Shelton vshelton@aoainc.com
Fri Nov 3 16:46:00 GMT 2006


Hey that's nice, thanks.

Dave Korn wrote:
>   Yep.  It's in /etc/setup/installed.db.  Here's a shell script to generate a
> dos batch file to remove all your cygwin files.
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> cut -f1 -d' ' < /etc/setup/installed.db | grep -v INSTALLED.DB \
> | xargs cygcheck -l | xargs cygpath -w  | sed -e 's/^/del /g' \
>> remove-all-cyg-files.bat
> 
> 
>   This doesn't take care of the left-over directories.  Running the list
> through dirname sort uniq xargs cygpath and sed 's/^/rd /g'
>> another-batch-file.bat is left as an exercise for the reader.

I noticed a couple of small potential gotchas: the generated batch file has 
some of the filenames repeated.  Also, in my installation there is one file 
name with spaces:

e:\cygwin\usr\share\lcms\profiles\sRGB Color Space Profile.icm

so here is a version modified slightly to remove duplicate filenames and to 
handle filenames with spaces.

     #!/bin/bash
     cut -f1 -d' ' < /etc/setup/installed.db | grep -v INSTALLED.DB | \
     xargs --delim='\n' cygcheck -l | xargs --delim='\n' cygpath -w  | \
     sed -e 's/\(.*\)/del "\1"/g' | sort -u > remove-all-cyg-files.bat

Regards,
   Vin Shelton


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