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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix Mail-Copies-To: never Reply-To: sds@gnu.org X-Attribution: Sam X-Disclaimer: You should not expect anyone to agree with me. From: Sam Steingold In-Reply-To: <20050810184119.GA6155@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> (Christopher Faylor's message of "Wed, 10 Aug 2005 14:41:19 -0400") References: <42FA4604.8000507@tlinx.org> <20050810183616.GA5892@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20050810184119.GA6155@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:57:40 -0400 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain > * Christopher Faylor [2005-08-10 14:41:19 -0400]: > > 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' how about a version that strips the leading slash? (I can pipe this through "sed 's,^/,,'", but there is a simpler way, right?) while we are at it, how do non-cygwin programs supposed to handle this /cygdrive stuff? shell scripts mindlessly transfered from unix to cygwin do not bother to use cygpath before passing pathnames to external programs. native Emacs or vim do not appreciate /cygdrive prefixes. it's easier to tell Emacs how to handle /cygdrive than to fix every elisp Makefile that is being distributed. that brings me to suggest that this "cygdrive" be made available in the registry (which cygwin does not use at all, so, I guess, this is not going anywhere...) thanks. -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running w2k Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. -- 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/