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From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 06:34:45 -0500
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[snip]
> Still searching for a non-sed solution Ken hammered out:
> 
> So this would be correct?
> 
> 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
> 
> Ken

I don't follow; why not just use sed and be done with it?  Sed is good at
regex, and regex is the best solution to this problem.  Give to Caesar what
is Caesar's, sez I.

-- 
Gary R. Van Sickle
 


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