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Re: A proposal for a Cygnus naming convention
- From: Gilgamesh Nootebos <Gilgamesh dot Nootebos at elegant dot nl>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 16:55:42 +0200
- Subject: Re: A proposal for a Cygnus naming convention
- Organization: The Elegant Group
- References: <BE684E2C997AD51199530002A56B20796C3652@MCHH2A1E>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Mellman Thomas wrote:
>
> Okay, it's clear now that it won't be possible to keep things easy to parse.
>
This is almost trivially easy if I wanted to manipulate mounts points in
a script:
$ regtool -k list 'HKLM\software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2'
>/
>/usr/bin
>/usr/lib
>/home
$ regtool get 'HKLM\software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/home\native'
>C:\Documents and Settings\gilgames\Mijn Documenten
There is only one reason I might want to do this; with mount(1) I can't
easily get exactly the string I want without falling back to something
like sed/awk/perl/<add your favourite stream manipulation tool here>.
And unices handle [[:space:]] characters very well, but it just isn't
tradition to use them.
gilgames
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