On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Robert Komar wrote: > this doesn't look like it will work if there is a space somewhere in > the path. If awk is available on every system, then how about this: > > BOOT_DIR_PATH=`ls -l $HOME/.dosemu/drives/c | awk -F"-> " '{ print $2 }'`/.. > > It uses "-> " as the field separator instead of the space. On my system, > the last '/' isn't required (the contents of the link already have a > trailing slash), but I guess it doesn't hurt to leave it there.
but this won't work if there is " -> " somewhere in $HOME ;) How about BOOT_DIR_PATH=`cd "$HOME/.dosemu/drives" && ls -l c | sed 's/.* -> //'`/.. in this case the source filename in "ls" won't have spaces. That'll work as long as no user name or group name or month (in some language) has " -> " in it. An extra readline binary would be another headache -- where to find it? perl is another option, but IIRC not completely standard, at least I received patches a while ago to remove perl dependencies. Bart - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html