Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix

[Gary R. Van Sickle]

[snip]
> 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

I don't follow; why not just use sed and be done with it?  Sed is good at
regex, and regex is the best solution to this problem.  Give to Caesar what
is Caesar's, sez I.

-- 
Gary R. Van Sickle
 


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