Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/08/10/17:48:34
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 02:36:16PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>>On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 11:23:00AM -0700, Linda W wrote:
>>
>>>Is there a way to find out in a bash script the cygdrive prefix?
>>>I thought something simple like
>>> mount -p|tail -1|cut -f1
>>>but that incorrectly assumed the fields were tab delimited.
>>>Since there can be spaces in the cygdrive prefix, I can't
>>>use space a delimiter, example:
>>># mount -p
>>>Prefix Type Flags
>>>/cyg drive posix path system binmode
>>>----
>>
>>There may be a simpler way to do it, but this seems to work:
>>
>>mount -p | sed -n '2s/\([^ ]\) *[^ ][^ ]* *[^ ][^ ]*$/\1/p'
>
>
> This is shorter:
>
> mount -p | sed -nr '2s/([^ ]) +\S+ +\S+$/\1/p'
>
Neither of which work if there is a space in the cygdrive prefix; viz a viz:
Prefix Type Flags
/cyg drive posix path system binmode
However,
mount -p | sed -nr '2s/([^ ].*) +\S+ +\S+/\1/p'
does the trick.
Regards,
L Anderson
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