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How can I programmatically determine the current Cygwin user's home directory in Windows format (e.g. C:\cygwin\home\user) so I can read from it outside of Cygwin Bash?

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You can use cygpath:

cygpath -w ~

Example output: 

C:\Users\dhaley
Daniel Haley
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