11-14-2007
I hinted at the potential for problems the "\" in the string, and it looks like you may have hit that. Microsoft have a lot to answer for in choosing to use a backslash as the directory delimiter - it has cost man-years of effort in people having to unravel it (including within Microsoft, as they use C and its derivatives for development).
It is possible that the behaviour will differ depending upon whether you use the command in a script or at the command line, and whether you use single or double quotes.
I don't see why the command should've hung, so it just might be worth checking that you have matched up the pairs of single and double-quotes on the revised command.
It looks to me like you're trying find a line with a DOS path on it (grep 'L:\\\:' is looking for a string L:\:) and then strip off the path to leave the filename (sed -e 's/.*\\\//' means delete everything up to the last backslash).
If that is the case, then you might try replacing the hard-wired grep with an extended grep egrep '[A-Z]:\\\:'.
What's the output of the "subst" command alone?
And what would you like the result to look like?
Using eval is going to add in even more dependencies on the backslashes.
Incidentally, are you sure it's the right number of backslashes and : characters in your string?
Last edited by prowla; 11-14-2007 at 06:06 PM..
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