Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 14:36:16 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix Message-ID: <20050810183616.GA5892@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <42FA4604 DOT 8000507 AT tlinx DOT org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42FA4604.8000507@tlinx.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i 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' 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/