Christopher Faylor wrote:

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?

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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