Greetings, Bill Stewart! >> There is -- use a cygwin shell. As Eric has already explained, expansion is >> the >> shell's responsibility. Powershell doesn't do it. If you want expansion, use >> one >> that does.
> So let's consider, for a bit, that not everybody uses a Cygwin shell. > (Hard to believe, perhaps, but PowerShell is really quite good.) Not as good as bash. Just so you know. > For interoperability's sake, it is useful to get this path from the > Windows side, and this seems oddly absent. Setup your system to use %USERPROFILE% as $HOME and forget this problem altogether. For interoperability's sake! (q) > Cygpath already has a set of flags for returning system information > directories, such as -H, which returns the path to the user profile > directory. (As I noted previously, this is not always the same as ~ > when expanded in a Cygwin shell.) Cygpath is designed to increse Cygwin's interoperability. Not PS's or what not. > Ergo: It would be quite useful if cygpath could tell us this path directly. > As I noted previously, yes, the below works: > dash -c '/bin/cygpath -aw ~' > However, this seems awkward and requires a Cygwin shell (why should > that be a prerequisite?). Try http://make-everything-ok.com/ then. > So I guess I have a feature request: > Add a new flag to cygpath that returns the current user's home > directory (same as what ~ returns from a Cygwin shell). -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Friday, February 15, 2019 14:29:47 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
