--- Mer 24/11/10, Fergus ha scritto: > Running Cygwin off a portable USB > stick. > > Different host machines typically allocate a different > drivename to the stick. > > Previous use, say it was J:. A not-quite-portable > application needed a settings.ini file built with many > occurrences of the string j:\usr\local\bin. The file was > built and saved. > > Current use: now it's K:. > > I could re-configure settings.ini with > sed -i 's/j:/k:/g' settings.ini > but in general I don't know (and don't want to bother with) > what the drivename labels were, or are. Something like > sed -i 's/.:\\/ replacementstring /g' settings.ini > will in fact be sufficiently strong to make the change > olddriveletter: to newdriveletter: where, and only where, I > need it, but experiment as I might with > replacementstring = cygpath -w > replacementstring = `cygpath -w` > and other variations, I can't get the syntax quite right. > > Can anybody help, please? Thank you very much. > > Fergus
something like this ? a=$(cygpath -w /) $ echo $a E:\cygwin2 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
