I just wanted to run an idea past the list. I want to write a shell script to test if Cygwin has been installed on the machine running the shell script.
I do this by running a shell (from a network install of Cygwin if necessary). If Cygwin is installed on the local machine, then "cygpath -w /" returns something like "c:\cygwin". (Good for discovering what drive Cygwin was installed on, right?) If Cygwin has not been installed, "cygpath -w /" returns a plain old backslash. That's fine - maybe even great. My question: is that a reliable way to perform that test? It seems good to me. I'm working my way towards a shell script that installs or upgrades Cygwin on a machine that may or may not have Cygwin installed, and do all our local post-install stuff (which is a lot of stuff), and also test that at least the major packages from the install work properly. luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
