I'm trying to use regtool to find the locations that software is
installed on a system, so as to write some post-install scripts
so that scripts like "word" and "excel" work (i.e., build in
pathname to executable, or define an MSOFFICE environment variable, or
whatever), and a desktop shortcut to start X11.
But I discovered on the way that regtool doesn't appear to work if the
key name has slashes in it. E.g. while you can use cygpath -w to
determine the install directory for cygwin, you don't seem to be able
to do it with regtool. I tried what seemed the right way:
regtool -p list "\HKLM\software\Cygnus solutions\cygwin\mounts v2\/\native"
and every other combo I could think of, but always got the error:
Error: The system cannot find the file specified.
Regedit shows that the key and value is there. I can't access it via
regtool, though.
What I really want, actually, is grepreg, so I can say:
grepreg word\.exe
Ah, wait, I can answer my own question. The "regtool -p list" shows
that those keys aren't "directories", so for such leaf keys you then
have to use a "get". My trouble is the regtool terminology, I think.
You have keys and values, and I wanted to find the value of the "value"
"\HKLM\software\Cygnus solutions\cygwin\mounts v2\/\native".
I guess regtool calls these leaf keys "values", and all the other keys
"keys". I think the man page would be greatly helped if the terms key
and value in regtool's context were carefully defined.
BTW, where is the source code for regtool? I guessed it might have been
in sh-utils or cyg-utils or even pkgconfig, but it isn't. Is there a
way to find the package that a program comes from?
luke
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