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From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: findmnt: parsing mountpoints with spaces
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:52:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120424175250.GC17370@x2.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120424144055.GB3813@magazyn-ziarno.zbozowa>

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 04:40:55PM +0200, Marcin Szewczyk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is there a way to make findmnt print unambiguous output in case of block
> devices/directories/mountpoints whose names contain spaces? I can see
> that --raw makes findmnt print undecorated output, but spaces remain not
> escaped.
> 
> May I request a feature of escaping spaces and possibly other
> non-printable characters in a fstab manner (\040 for space)?

 Good point, I have already added this to lsblk for LABELs in parsable
 output, it seems that we need this for mountpoint and findmnt too.

 Added to my TODO. Thanks.

    Karel

-- 
 Karel Zak  <kzak@redhat.com>
 http://karelzak.blogspot.com

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-24 17:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-24 14:40 findmnt: parsing mountpoints with spaces Marcin Szewczyk
2012-04-24 17:52 ` Karel Zak [this message]
2012-04-24 17:55   ` Marcin Szewczyk
2012-04-26  7:32     ` Karel Zak
2012-04-26  7:48       ` Marcin Szewczyk

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