Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix

[Ken Dibble]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

>On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:14:54PM -0500, Ken Dibble wrote:
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>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
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>>>On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:01:43PM -0500, Ken Dibble wrote:
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>>>>In my attempt to understand, can you tell me where (and why) this would 
>>>>fail?
>>>>
>>>>mount -m |  grep "mount -u" | tail -1 | awk '{print $5}'
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>>>It doesn't deal with imbedded spaces in the cygdrive prefix --
>>>i.e., the point of this exercise.
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>>If I read the man page correctly:
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>>  -m, --mount-commands
>>            write mount commands to replace user and system mount 
>>points and
>>            cygdrive prefixes
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>>Since all this script does is take this output of mount -m and parse it....
>>Is "mount -m"  is broken then?
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>>Am I not understanding the man page or am I so dense that I'm missing 
>>something?
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>Hint:  What does "awk '{print $5}'" do?
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Thanks.  One of these years I will eventually understand when quotes 
cause an item with embedded spaces
to be a single item and when they get lost in processing, causing the 
embedded space item to be multiple items.

I apppreciate your  time.
Ken


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