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 -- 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/