Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/08/11/11:36:23
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 02:47:52PM -0700, L Anderson wrote:
>
>>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
>
>
> Actually yes they will. Did you actually try the above? I did.
>
[red face on]
Ummm, yah I did try them both using a number of test scenarios but all
tests failed. That's why I posted. However, I had been using my
Win98SE system for about 5 hours when I did the tests.
This morning I cold restarted my system and tried to verify yesterday's
results. Now I can't get any of my tests to fail and I have not
installed or updated any software.
That's the last time I report an alleged problem without verifying it
after a cold restart!
Sorry for the noise.
[red face off in a bit]
Regards,
L Anderson
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