Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix
Patricia J. Hawkins
phawkins@connact.com
Thu Aug 11 17:05:00 GMT 2005
>>>>> "GRVS" == Gary R Van Sickle <g.r.vansickle@worldnet.att.net> writes:
Ken wrote:
>> 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.
GRVS> Well, when you do, be sure to publish a writeup in a prestegious journal so
GRVS> the rest of us can finally solve the mystery. ;-)
heh. Try O'Reilly's _Learning The Bash Shell_.
Makes the arcane cane; straightened out my weird mish-mash of things
known, unknown, remembered, half-remembered, those understood, and the
items not understood but done by rote. Nice examples, nice
explication of all those disparate weird but powerful features that
were inherited from historic shells.
--
Patricia J. Hawkins
Hawkins Internet Applications
www.hawkinsia.com
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