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Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 19:29:19 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix
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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

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