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: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:42:22 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix Message-ID: <20050811154222.GJ16476@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <081120051447.8407.42FB65010003437A000020D722007340760A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <081120051447.8407.42FB65010003437A000020D722007340760A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 02:47:29PM +0000, Eric Blake wrote: >>>mount -p | sed -nr '2s,/([^ ]) +\S+ +\S+$,\1,p' >> >>that's what I also tried before sending my e-mail. it does not print >>anything. > >Oh right, I missed a + to make \1 be more than one character: > >mount -p | sed -nr '2s,/([^ ]+) +\S+ +\S+$,\1,p' And now we're back to not handling a cygdrive with imbedded spaces. We're really looping here. This is really degenerating into a "how do I use UNIX tools?" discussion which is really not a topic for this mailing list. Perhaps this should be moved to cygwin-talk. 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/