Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix
Christopher Faylor
cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Wed Aug 10 18:36:00 GMT 2005
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
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