Re: Where is cygwin bin directory?

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 08:14:20AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 04:03:58PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 09:58:18PM +0100, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote:
>> >cgf wrote:
>> >> On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 07:20:26PM +0100, Lennart Borgman wrote:
>> >>> Is the path to Cygwin bin directory available in windows registry?
>> >>> 
>> >>> It would be nice if it were there since that would make it easier to
>> >>> use Cygwin from other programs.
>> >> 
>> >> "man cygpath"
>> >> "man mount"
>> >
>> >Deciphered:
>> >
>> >- Windows style path
>> >$ cygpath -aw /bin
>> >
>> >Output, e.g: W:\cygwin\bin
>> >
>> >- Cygwin style path
>> >$ echo "$(cygpath -am /bin)" | \
>> >sed -re 's/^(..)(.*)$/\1;\2;-/' | \
>> >(IFS=";" read drive path garbage; \
>> >echo "$(cygpath -au "$drive")$path" )
>> >
>> >Output, e.g: /cygdrive/w/cygwin/bin
>> 
>> Referrring to the cygwin /bin directory as /cygdrive/w/cygwin/bin serves
>> no purpose.
>> 
>> To the OP - just use whatever cygpath options make sense.  It's not that
>> hard and it certainly doesn't require anything like the gobbledegook
>> above.
>> 
>> Or, if you just are just curious about what /bin translates to, use mount.
>
>I have to take exception to this post of cgf's.  I mean, Really! How
>can you use that kind of language to people?  It's gobbledegoop, not
>gobbledegook.
>
>*pause*
>
>*consult dictionary*
>
>Oops, sorry; -gook seems to be canonical.  Not the way I learned it
>though! But it is gobbledygook with a Y!

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=gobbledegook

gobbledegook is acceptable.  I did look it up before I sent the email.

cgf