Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 14:41:19 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix Message-ID: <20050810184119.GA6155@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <42FA4604.8000507@tlinx.org> <20050810183616.GA5892@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050810183616.GA5892@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i 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' cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/