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Date:	Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:06:33 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix
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On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:01:43PM -0500, Ken Dibble wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 03:14:36PM -0700, L Anderson wrote:
>>>Oops! I meant also to add that
>>>
>>>mount -p | sed -nr '2s/(.*) +\S+ +\S+/\1/p'
>>>
>>>is even a shorter version.
>>
>>And it still includes trailing spaces in the eventual result.
>
>In my attempt to understand, can you tell me where (and why) this would 
>fail?
>
>mount -m |  grep "mount -u" | tail -1 | awk '{print $5}'

It doesn't deal with imbedded spaces in the cygdrive prefix --
i.e., the point of this exercise.

cgf

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