Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 02:47:52PM -0700, L Anderson wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 02:36:16PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
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/\([^ ]\) *[^ ][^ ]* *[^ ][^ ]*$/\1/p'
This is shorter:
mount -p | sed -nr '2s/([^ ]) +\S+ +\S+$/\1/p'
Neither of which work if there is a space in the cygdrive prefix; viz a viz:
Prefix Type Flags
/cyg drive posix path system binmode
Actually yes they will. Did you actually try the above? I did.
[red face on]
Ummm, yah I did try them both using a number of test scenarios but all
tests failed. That's why I posted. However, I had been using my
Win98SE system for about 5 hours when I did the tests.
This morning I cold restarted my system and tried to verify yesterday's
results. Now I can't get any of my tests to fail and I have not
installed or updated any software.
That's the last time I report an alleged problem without verifying it
after a cold restart!
Sorry for the noise.
[red face off in a bit]
Regards,
L Anderson
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