Re: Useful cygwinism: "Explorer Here"

Re: Useful cygwinism: "Explorer Here"

[Reini Urban]

> Betreff: Re: Useful cygwinism: "Explorer Here"
> Datum: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 20:07:14 +0200
> Von: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb@nyckelpiga.de>
> An: cygwin@cygwin.com
> 
> Bernard schrieb:
> 
> > You can change the /cygdrive prefix, but I don't recommend it.
> 
> Why?
> 
> Gerrit
> --
> =^..^=

Many smaller tools just dumbly expect the /cygdrive prefix.
For example the latest ilisp packages for emacs and xemacs.

cygprefix=`mount --show-cygdrive-prefix | head -n2|tail -n1|cut -f1 -d'
'` 
is just too costly.

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Getting /cygdrive in scripts (was Re: Useful cygwinism: "Explorer Here")

[Dario Alcocer]

On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 07:48:29AM +0000, Reini Urban wrote:
> > Betreff: Re: Useful cygwinism: "Explorer Here"
> > Datum: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 20:07:14 +0200
> > Von: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb@nyckelpiga.de>
> > An: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > 
> > Bernard schrieb:
> > 
> > > You can change the /cygdrive prefix, but I don't recommend it.
> > 
> > Why?
> > 
> > Gerrit
> > --
> > =^..^=
> 
> Many smaller tools just dumbly expect the /cygdrive prefix.
> For example the latest ilisp packages for emacs and xemacs.
> 
> cygprefix=`mount --show-cygdrive-prefix | head -n2|tail -n1|cut -f1 -d'
> '` 
> is just too costly.

I'm not in front of my Cygwin shell, but wouldn't the following be
better?

    cygprefix=`mount --show-cygdrive-prefix | awk 'NR==2 {print $1}'`

You command line is creating and destroying 4 processes, as opposed to
the above, which only uses two.

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