On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 3:14 PM Vince Rice wrote: > 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.) For interoperability's sake, it is useful to get this path from the Windows side, and this seems oddly absent. 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.) 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?). 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). Thanks! Bill -- 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
