On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 9:14 AM Takashi Yano wrote: > If you don't want to use "shell", you can: > c:/cygwin/bin/cygpath -w $(c:/cygwin/bin/getent passwd $env:USERNAME | > c:/cygwin/bin/cut -d: -f6) > but I'm not sure if you think this is "awkward" as well.
Why cut if you are already using PowerShell? All you need is cygpath -w ((getent passwd $Env:USERNAME) -split ':')[5] We're still forced to spawn two executables, but at least we're not dependent on a Cygwin shell expansion so this is probably a bit better. Regards, 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
