Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/08/10/22:30:56
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:14:54PM -0500, Ken Dibble wrote:
>
>
>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
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>>>On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:01:43PM -0500, Ken Dibble wrote:
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>>>>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.
>>>
>>>
>>If I read the man page correctly:
>>
>> -m, --mount-commands
>> write mount commands to replace user and system mount
>>points and
>> cygdrive prefixes
>>
>>Since all this script does is take this output of mount -m and parse it....
>>Is "mount -m" is broken then?
>>
>>Am I not understanding the man page or am I so dense that I'm missing
>>something?
>>
>>
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>Hint: What does "awk '{print $5}'" do?
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Thanks. One of these years I will eventually understand when quotes
cause an item with embedded spaces
to be a single item and when they get lost in processing, causing the
embedded space item to be multiple items.
I apppreciate your time.
Ken
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