Re: CYGWIN Installer should setup a root environment variable

[Chris Walters]

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Chris Walters wrote:

I have experienced many times situations which I would like to refer to
CYGWIN's root directory from a bat script. The most generic solution
would be to utilise an environment variable such as CYGROOT or (as in
startxwin.bat) CYGWIN_ROOT to refer to the absolute windows pathname
(e.g. D:\cygwin). This would free us from making assumptions if it was
setup during the installation utility. The environment variable should
be setup for system if installed for "All Users".

`cygpath -w /`

This is fine, but how do I use the result in a DOS bat script? I can't find any way to execute this command and store the result into an envrionment variable or use it to use it in the arguments for a separate command.

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