findmnt: parsing mountpoints with spaces

findmnt: parsing mountpoints with spaces

[Marcin Szewczyk]

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)?

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Re: findmnt: parsing mountpoints with spaces

[Karel Zak]

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

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Re: findmnt: parsing mountpoints with spaces

[Marcin Szewczyk]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 07:52:50PM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 04:40:55PM +0200, Marcin Szewczyk wrote:
> > May I request a feature of escaping spaces and possibly other
> > non-printable characters in a fstab manner (\040 for space)?
> 
>  Added to my TODO. Thanks.

Great. Thank You again.

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Re: findmnt: parsing mountpoints with spaces

[Karel Zak]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 07:55:07PM +0200, Marcin Szewczyk wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 07:52:50PM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 04:40:55PM +0200, Marcin Szewczyk wrote:
> > > May I request a feature of escaping spaces and possibly other
> > > non-printable characters in a fstab manner (\040 for space)?
> > 
> >  Added to my TODO. Thanks.
> 
> Great. Thank You again.

Implemented, but it uses \x<hex> -- I think it's more readable and
also compatible with /dev/disk/by-* udev stuffl, latest DM, etc.

Maybe we can add something like --encode=hex|oct to specify wanted
encoding.

    Karel

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Re: findmnt: parsing mountpoints with spaces

[Marcin Szewczyk]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 09:32:41AM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 04:40:55PM +0200, Marcin Szewczyk wrote:
> > > > May I request a feature of escaping spaces and possibly other
> > > > non-printable characters in a fstab manner (\040 for space)?

> Implemented, but it uses \x<hex> -- I think it's more readable and
> also compatible with /dev/disk/by-* udev stuffl, latest DM, etc.
> 
> Maybe we can add something like --encode=hex|oct to specify wanted
> encoding.

Any unambiguous encoding is good for me. It's no problem to pipe it to
another tool that can recognize that hex notation. Thanks.

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