From: "Pádraig Brady" <P@draigBrady.com>
To: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: suggestion to avoid erroneous lines in findmnt/lslocks/...
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 01:31:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50318578.70402@draigBrady.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120813123921.GB3533@x2.net.home>
On 08/13/2012 01:39 PM, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 12:36:05AM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> ck\slash is not \x<xdigit> sequence, so escape is unnecessary
>>>
>>> Note that \\server\path is pretty common for cifs and use \x5c
>>> for all '\' will make the findmnt output unreadable in many cases.
>>> IMHO is better to be "smart" and use escape sequences only when it's
>>> really necessary.
>>
>> Better for humans, but awkward for scripts to parse.
>> What I was thinking was perhaps --raw or -P would
>> do unconditional escaping of '\' so unescaping can be
>> done with just `printf %b`?
>
> Good point. Fixed, all '\' will be replaced with \x5c.
Excellent.
I've tested using the previous test case,
and output is as expected (including the
invalid UTF8 case).
cheers,
Pádraig.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-20 0:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-04 15:42 suggestion to avoid erroneous lines in findmnt/lslocks/ Pádraig Brady
2012-08-04 15:57 ` Dave Reisner
2012-08-05 2:02 ` Pádraig Brady
2012-08-06 8:15 ` Karel Zak
2012-08-06 11:10 ` Karel Zak
2012-08-06 14:44 ` Pádraig Brady
2012-08-07 8:09 ` Karel Zak
2012-08-07 11:35 ` Dave Reisner
2012-08-07 23:36 ` Pádraig Brady
2012-08-13 12:39 ` Karel Zak
2012-08-20 0:31 ` Pádraig Brady [this message]
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