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Re: Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix


On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:14:54PM -0500, Ken Dibble wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:01:43PM -0500, Ken Dibble wrote:
>>>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}'
>>
>>It doesn't deal with imbedded spaces in the cygdrive prefix --
>>i.e., the point of this exercise.
>
>If I read the man page correctly:
>
>   -m, --mount-commands
>             write mount commands to replace user and system mount 
>points and
>             cygdrive prefixes
>
>Since all this script does is take this output of mount -m and parse it....
>Is "mount -m"  is broken then?
>
>Am I not understanding the man page or am I so dense that I'm missing 
>something?

Hint:  What does "awk '{print $5}'" do?

cgf

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