Re: Cygwin mount option -s is not supported

[Vlado <v.99cygwin@gmail.com>]

On 25.11.2020 15:18, KAVALAGIOS Panagiotis (EEAS-EXT) wrote:
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>    if [ -n "`uname -s |grep -i cygwin_`" ]; then
>    # If we are on an new version of Cygnus we need to turn <letter>:/ in
>    # the path to/cygdrive/<letter>/
>      CYGDRIVE=`mount -p | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}' | sed -e 's%/$%%'`
>      WL_HOME_CYGWIN=`echo $WL_HOME | sed "s#\([a-zA-Z]\):#${CYGDRIVE}/\1#g"`
>      ANT_HOME_CYGWIN=`echo $ANT_HOME | sed "s#\([a-zA-Z]\):#${CYGDRIVE}/\1#g"`
>      PATCH_PATH_CYGWIN=`echo $PATCH_PATH | sed "s#\([a-zA-Z]\):#${CYGDRIVE}/\1#g"`
>      JAVA_HOME_CYGWIN=`echo $JAVA_HOME | sed "s#\([a-zA-Z]\):#${CYGDRIVE}/\1#g"`
>      JRE_HOME_CYGWIN=`echo $JRE_HOME | sed "s#\([a-zA-Z]\):#${CYGDRIVE}/\1#g"`
Hi.

Hard to say why Oracle's script is written this way. Standard Cygwin 
tool for file names conversion is cygpath. Instead of using sed, one can 
write
WL_HOME_CYGWIN=`cygpath -u $WL_HOME`
- simpler and the result will be more consistent. Example

$ WL_HOME='C:\some\dir\subdir'            # Windows path
$ echo "$WL_HOME" | sed "s#\([a-zA-Z]\):#/cygdrive/c/\1#g"
/cygdrive/c/C\some\dir\subdir             # mixed forward and back slashes
$ cygpath -u "$WL_HOME"
/cygdrive/c/some/dir/subdir               # pretty Cygwin path

Vlado