Re: regtool problem

On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:26:18AM +0200, Mellman Thomas wrote: >>>-Original Message- >>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>>Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 8:19 AM >>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>Subject: Re: regtool pro

RE: regtool problem

>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\so

RE: regtool problem

On 7 May, Mellman Thomas wrote: > The way I do this is export the registry using regedit and then use > reasonable (i.e. text) tools on it. I don't see how to do that in a script - if I run even "regedit /?", it pops up a GUI and requires interaction. Not useful inside an automated script!

RE: regtool problem

>>-Original Message- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 8:19 AM >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: regtool problem >> >> >>On 7 May, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >&

Re: regtool problem

On 7 May, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What I really want, actually, is grepreg, so I can say: > > grepreg word\.exe The reason I want that is, finding the installed path of an executable in something like MS Office, where there are many different versions and which can be in diffe

regtool problem

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