On 2/14/19 1:40 PM, Bill Stewart wrote: > According to this: > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42841907/ > > cygpath -w ~ > > ...formerly produced to stdout the home directory path for the current user. > > This seems not be the case any more: When I run cygpath -w ~, I get just ~.
What shell are you using? > > Is this by design? If so, what's the way to programmatically determine > the Windows path of ~? Depending on the shell, ~ is expanded to $HOME prior to invoking a program. But if you want to take the shell's expansions out of the equation, you could use: cygpath -w "$HOME" -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
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