Manual: fstab-decode

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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 ARGUMENTs 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 multi‐
       ple 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  mount‐
       points.	This unmounts all VFAT partitions.

       fstab-decode umount $(awk '$3 == "vfat" { print $2 }' /etc/fstab)

SEE ALSO
       fstab(5)

sysvinit						  May 2006					     FSTAB-DECODE(8)