RFE?: CygWinDir in ENV? (was Re: How does one find where Cygwin was installed from Windows?)

[Tim McDaniel]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Larry Hall wrote:
> Tim McDaniel wrote:
>> I have several "trampoline" scripts, a bat file doing nothing but
>> invoking a corresponding bash shell script or Perl program.  I have
>> to hard-code a location for the bash / perl interpreter, but those
>> locations change from user to user (some people install under c:\,
>> some under the standard location).  I would like to have the
>> scripts work for any system.
...
>> (When mentioning it, by the way, you might also mention REG.exe, a
>> program to do registry access, and the options for FOR that allow
>> running a program and getting the results in a variable in CMD.exe.
>> I hadn't heard of REG until I went searching just now.)
>
> Sounds similar to Cygwin's 'regtool'.  Definitely would be helpful
> if you're trying to batch script something like this.

Well, not in *this* special case, because "like this" is trying to
find the Cygwin installation in the first place; if it knew where
regtool was, it would already know where Cygwin was installed ...

But thanks for the pointer to regtool -- I'll make a note of it for
other uses.

-- 
Tim McDaniel, tmcd@panix.com

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