On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Soren A wrote:
>
> > OK, Brian, your copy_cygpath tool works just fine (sans the issues
> > of providing fancy escaping a' la' `ls'). But I cannot get the
> > Registry to accept the entries now! Each time I try I get the keys
> > created OK, but the "command" is undefined (I am writing of how we
> > see the Registry in "regedit"). Somehow, my guess is that REGEDIT
> > is not liking the way the data entries look and is blanking them
> > out when adding the values to the keys.
>
> Yeah, all the quoting and escaping can get pretty tedious. It would
> also be nice if Regedit-files could specify EXPAND_SZ directly. MS has
> a couple of other tools that are really handy for this kind of thing,
> one is called just REG:
>
> Command-line registry manipulation utility version 1.10.
> Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1997. All rights reserved.
>
> REG operation <Parameter List>
>
> operation [ QUERY | ADD | UPDATE | DELETE | COPY |
> SAVE | LOAD | RESTORE | UNLOAD | FIND |
> EXPORT | COMPARE | IMPORT ]
>
> For help on a specific operation type:
> REG operation /?
>
> Examples:
>
> REG QUERY /?
> REG ADD /?
> REG UPDATE /?
> REG DELETE /?
> REG COPY /?
> REG SAVE /?
> REG RESTORE /?
> REG LOAD /?
> REG UNLOAD /?
> REG FIND /?
> REG EXPORT /?
> REG IMPORT /?
> REG COMPARE /?
>
> In our case the following (this is from a rxvt/cygwin prompt, no need
> for double-backslashes if using CMD):
>
> reg add
> HKCR\\Directory\\shell\\CygPath\\command\\='%SystemDrive%/cygwin/bin/copy_cygpath.exe
> "%1"' REG_EXPAND_SZ
>
> You get get the REG program from
> http://www.dynawell.com/reskit/microsoft/win2000/reg.zip
>
> (FYI there are two other resource kit programs I use all the time,
> REGFIND and SCANREG, which both do a grep on the registry.)
>
> Brian
Any particular reason why you're discounting regtool? This is a Cygwin
list, after all... ;-)
Igor
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