Program files environmental variables

[john doe]

On 11/23/2021 2:10 PM, Eliot Moss wrote:
> On 11/23/2021 4:02 AM, john doe via Cygwin wrote:
>  > Cygwins,
>  >
>  > Is there a way to get the value of PROGRAMFILES(x86) and PROGRAMW6432 in
>  > Bash:
>  >
>  > $ echo $PROGRAMFILES; echo "$PROGRAMFILES(x86)"; echo $PROGGRAMW6432
>  > C:\Program Files
>  > C:\Program Files(x86)
>  >
>  > $ cmd.exe /C "echo %PROGRAMFILES% %PROGRAMFILES(x86)% %PROGRAMW6432%"
>  > C:\Program Files C:\Program Files (x86) C:\Program Files
>  >
>  >
>  > PROGRAMFILES works in Bash but not the other two.
>
> PROGRAMW6432 exists in my Cygwin bash, and I know I did not set it

What version of Cygwin bash are you using?

> explicitly.  As for the x86 one, parentheses are not allowed in
> bash variable names.  In principle one could set up, say,
> PROGRAMFILESx86, however no path of that kind is around in my
> bash.  It would be possible to read it out and setup the variable.
> I found, for example, that this prints out the setting of the
> variable (but with other gorp you'd have to edit out):
>
> echo "echo %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%; exit" | cmd
>

Thank you.

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John Doe