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 22:06:33 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix Message-ID: <20050811020633.GF10161@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <42FA4604.8000507@tlinx.org> <20050810183616.GA5892@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20050810184119.GA6155@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <42FA7608.4070501@serv.net> <42FA7C4C.4010607@serv.net> <20050811012423.GD10161@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <42FAB187.8020503@alltel.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42FAB187.8020503@alltel.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i 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 -- 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/