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From: Mellman Thomas <Thomas DOT Mellman AT icn DOT siemens DOT de>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: A proposal for a Cygnus naming convention
Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 17:05:51 +0200 
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Gilgamesh Nootebos [mailto:Gilgamesh DOT Nootebos AT elegant DOT nl]
>>Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 4:56 PM
>>To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>>Subject: Re: A proposal for a Cygnus naming convention
>>
>>
>>Mellman Thomas wrote:
>>> 
>>> Okay, it's clear now that it won't be possible to keep 
>>things easy to parse.
>>> 
>>This is almost trivially easy if I wanted to manipulate 
>>mounts points in 
>>a script:
>>
>>$ regtool -k list 'HKLM\software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2'
>> >/
>> >/usr/bin
>> >/usr/lib
>> >/home
>>
>>$ regtool get 'HKLM\software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts 
>>v2\/home\native'
>> >C:\Documents and Settings\gilgames\Mijn Documenten
>>
>>There is only one reason I might want to do this; with 
>>mount(1) I can't 
>>easily get exactly the string I want without falling back to 
>>something 
>>like sed/awk/perl/<add your favourite stream manipulation tool here>.
>>
>>And unices handle [[:space:]] characters very well, but it just isn't 
>>tradition to use them.



It's just that I like to use split() in perl or $1, $2, $3 in awk.  To say it's "easy" to handle blanks with Unix is ... well, to avoid anything that might inflame, let's say, academic.

Incidently, I haven't heard anyone explain what purpose the blank in "mount v2" serves.

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