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 Message-ID: <42FAB7FF.A04524AA@dessent.net> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 19:29:19 -0700 From: Brian Dessent MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix 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> <20050811020633.GF10161@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <42FAB49E.2010401@alltel.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Ken Dibble wrote: > Am I not understanding the man page or am I so dense that I'm missing > something? Yes you are missing something, and no 'mount -m' works perfectly fine. If the cygdrive prefix has a space in it, using awk to print the fifth word will be incorrect. Consider: echo 'mount -s -b --change-cygdrive-prefix "/thing with spaces"' \ | awk '{ print $5 }' Brian -- 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/