Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix

[L Anderson]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 02:47:52PM -0700, L Anderson wrote:
> 
>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>>>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'
>>>
>>
>>Neither of which work if there is a space in the cygdrive prefix; viz a viz:
>>
>>Prefix              Type         Flags
>>/cyg drive posix path  system       binmode
> 
> 
> Actually yes they will.  Did you actually try the above?  I did.
> 

[red face on]

Ummm, yah I did try them both using a number of test scenarios but all 
tests failed.  That's why I posted.  However, I had been using my 
Win98SE system for about 5 hours when I did the tests.

This morning I cold restarted my system and tried to verify yesterday's 
results.  Now I can't get any of my tests to fail and I have not 
installed or updated any software.

That's the last time I report an alleged problem without verifying it 
after a cold restart!

Sorry for the noise.

[red face off in a bit]

Regards,

L Anderson



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