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Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 04:26:31 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Ken Dibble wrote:

> mount -m |  grep "mount -u" | tail -1  | awk -F'"' '{ print $2 }'
> 
> as
> echo 'mount -s -b --change-cygdrive-prefix "/thing with spaces"'  | awk
> -F'"' '{ print $2 }'
> results in
> /thing with spaces

The awk part seems fine, but I don't know about the "mount -u".  That
will only match if you have a user-mode cygdrive set.  As you can see
from my example, that doesn't include me (or anyone else that installs
cygwin choosing "All users" in setup.exe.)

If you're going to use awk then you can simplify and not bother with
grep and tail, they're extraneous.

mount -m | awk -F '"' '/--change-cygdrive-prefix/ { print $2 }'

Brian

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