Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix

[Christopher Faylor]

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'

cgf

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