Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix

[Ken Dibble]

Brian Dessent wrote:

>Ken Dibble wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Am I not understanding the man page or am I so dense that I'm missing
>>something?
>>    
>>
>
>Yes you are missing something, and no 'mount -m' works perfectly fine. 
>If the cygdrive prefix has a space in it, using awk to print the fifth
>word will be incorrect.  Consider:
>
>echo 'mount -s -b --change-cygdrive-prefix "/thing with spaces"' \
>       | awk '{ print $5 }'
>
>Brian
>
Still searching for a non-sed solution Ken hammered out:

So this would be correct?

mount -m |  grep "mount -u" | tail -1  | awk -F'"' '{ print $2 }'

as
echo 'mount -s -b --change-cygdrive-prefix "/thing with spaces"'  | awk 
-F'"' '{ print $2 }'
results in
/thing with spaces

Ken



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