Program files environmental variables

[Csaba Raduly]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2021 at 10:02, john doe via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>
> Cygwins,
>
> Is there a way to get the value of PROGRAMFILES(x86) and PROGRAMW6432 in
> Bash:
>

$ env | grep PROGRAMFILES
COMMONPROGRAMFILES=C:\Program Files\Common Files
PROGRAMFILES=C:\Program Files

These are the environment variables visible in my Cygwin environment.

echo "$PROGRAMFILES(x86)" is the equivalent of echo
"${PROGRAMFILES}(x86)" i.e. the value of $PROGRAMFILES, followed by
the fixed string "(x86)"

I tried

$ echo "${PROGRAMFILES(x86)}"
$ echo "${PROGRAMFILES\(x86\)}"

and bash outright refused them ("bad substitution"). So it may not be
possible to have an environment variable with ()s in its name.

Csaba
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