FSTAB-DECODE
Section: Linux System Administrator's Manual (8)
Updated: May 2006
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NAME
fstab-decode - run a command with fstab-encoded arguments
SYNOPSIS
fstab-decode COMMAND [,ARGUMENT ...]
DESCRIPTION
fstab-decode
decodes escapes (such as newline characters and other whitespace)
in the specified ARGUMENT/s and uses them to run COMMAND.
The argument escaping uses the same rules as path escaping in
/etc/fstab, /etc/mtab and /proc/mtab.
In essence fstab-decode can be used anytime we want to pass multiple
parameters to a command as a list of command line arguments. It turns output
like this:
/root
/mnt/remote-disk
/home
Into one long list of parameters, "/root /mnt/remote-disk /home". This
can be useful when trying to work with multiple filesystems at once. For
instance, we can use it to unmount multiple NFS shares. This program also
removes whitespace and other characters which might cause programs such
as mount(8) or umount(8) to fail.
EXIT STATUS
fstab-decode
exits with status 127 if
COMMAND
can't be run.
Otherwise it exits with the status returned by COMMAND.
EXAMPLES
The following example reads fstab, finds all instances of VFAT filesystems
and prints their mount points (argument 2 in the fstab file).
fstab-decode then runs the specified program, umount(8), and passes
it the list of VFAT mountpoints. This unmounts all VFAT partitions.
fstab-decode umount $(awk '$3 == "vfat" { print $2 }' /etc/fstab)
SEE ALSO
fstab(5)
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