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Re: Meaningful Windows locations and cygpath (Was Re: Is it possible tocopy a file from anywhere to My Documents with bash cp?)


In 2000 domain and probably .NET, active directory,
group policy, user config
there are 4 folders and 1 subfolder that receive special
consideration from MS in domain administration

"$USERPROFILE/Application Data"
"$USERPROFILE/Desktop"
"$USERPROFILE/My Documents"
	"$USERPROFILE/My Documents/My Pictures"
"$USERPROFILE/Start Menu"

Each is individually redirectable to some other location
but should still be accessable under "$USERPROFILE"

I hope I'm not telling something already generally known.

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> 
> Hmm...  cygpath currently has options to print the windows Documents and
> Settings directory (-H), as well as the Start Menu/Programs directory
> (-P).  Should we add more options for the other meaningful Windows
> directories (such as My Documents, for example)?  What other special names
> should we be aware of?  Would anyone know which API calls return these?
>         Igor
> P.S. As an aside, I've just discovered that the -A flag is ignored or
> non-functional on Win98...  I'll look into that.
> 
> On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> 
> > To add new wrinkles after the final one, "$USERPROFILE/My Documents" is
> > still somewhat presumptuous.  That certainly looks like the default
> > location, but in Windows XP (what I just checked on) the user is allowed
> > to change the location of My Documents through the UI.  On my machine,
> > it's (Windows syntax) D:\Doc, even though %USERPROFILE% still references
> > C:\Documents and Settings\smueller.
> >
> > stephan();
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Don Dwiggins [mailto:dond@advancedmp.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 12:14 PM
> > To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > Subject: Re: Is it possible to copy a file from anywhere to My Documents
> > with bash cp?
> >
> >
> > Randall R Schulz writes:
> > > You should be able to see the contents of your "My Documents"
> > > directory with this command:
> >
> > > % ls -l "$USERPROFILE/My Documents"
> >
> > > Likewise, you can move or copy files to that directory like this:
> >
> > > % cp SomeFile "$USERPROFILE/My Documents"
> > > % mv OtherFile "$USERPROFILE/My Documents"
> >
> > As a final wrinkle, if you're going to do this a lot, you might want to
> > do something like "mount -u "$USERPROFILE/My Documents" /mydocs"; then
> > you can say things like "mv furniture /mydocs".
> 
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