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: <42FAB844.4010100@alltel.net> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 21:30:28 -0500 From: Ken Dibble User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) 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> <20050811022121.GA16476@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: <20050811022121.GA16476@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:14:54PM -0500, Ken Dibble wrote: > > >>Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >> >>>On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:01:43PM -0500, Ken Dibble wrote: >>> >>> >>>>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? >> >> > >Hint: What does "awk '{print $5}'" do? > > > 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 -- 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/