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From: "Thorsten Kampe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: Double backslashed registry names can't be found?
* Stephen D Lindner (2006-07-15 01:35 +0000)
OK, no more top posting...I can take a hint...erp, excuse me.
Your quoting is way beyond good and evil...
You can't "check" with regtool for values - only for keys. The
documentation says it.
On the other hand you shouldn't trust the documentation because it is
incorrect in many ways:
* It says "KEY is in the format [host]\prefix\KEY\KEY\VALUE" (which
would mean that you /could/ "regtool check" for values - but you
can't. The problem here is that sometimes "KEY" means "KEY" and
sometimes "KEY" means "KEY\VALUE".
* It says "You can use forward slash ('/') as a separator instead of
backslash, in that case backslash is treated as escape character"
...which would mean that
regtool get
'/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/UserAssist/{75048700-EF1F-11D0-9888-006097DEACF9}/Count/HRZR_EHACNGU:S:\\cfgneg.rkr'
...should work - but it doesn't.
* the doc says "Options for 'set' and 'unset' Actions: -K<c>,
--key-separator[=]<c> set key separator to <c> instead of '\'"
That incorrect in two ways because
1. "-k" is not only valid for set and unset but it's also valid for
"get"
2. It would mean that "regtool -K+ check
'+HKEY_CURRENT_USER+Software'" would be valid but it isn't.
So what actually does work...?
1. regtool -K+ get
'\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\UserAssist\{75048700-EF1F-11D0-9888-006097DEACF9}\Count+HRZR_EHAPCY:"P:\JVAQBJF\flfgrz32\vagy.pcy",Ertvbany
naq Ynathntr Bcgvbaf'
and
2. regtool -K+ get
'/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/UserAssist/{75048700-EF1F-11D0-9888-006097DEACF9}/Count+HRZR_EHAPCY:"P:\\JVAQBJF\\flfgrz32\\vagy.pcy",Ertvbany
naq Ynathntr Bcgvbaf'
I've made SOME of these work ok but I still need to revisit this (becoming)
regtool script from hell.
Microshaft (and worm writers, etc.) stores so much quatsch in the registry.
It is nominally relational. It is also hierarchical.
It would be so nice if there were some really nice tools to tame the beast.
For example, (1) list a bunch of records. (2) Grep for those records that
meet the criteria. (3) Do something to the records that meet the criteria.
Maybe build a MySQL interface to the bloody thing? ...sorta...
Hmmm.
Doesn't look good.
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