Am 28.02.22 um 05:45 schrieb Robert Nichols: > On 2/27/22 12:26 PM, centos at niob.at wrote: >> Am 27.02.22 um 04:33 schrieb Robert Nichols: >>> Does anything for CentOS 8 provide the function of the fstab-decode >>> utility? >>> Entries in /proc/mounts and /etc/fstab can have escape sequences for >>> certain special characters, and I need to decode that. >> >> Preface: Never heard of fstab-decode before. Researching the command >> made me really wonder why it was invented. Especially since I have >> never seen an /etc/fstab with "escape sequences" or "special >> characters" since at least 1990 (If I am wrong: Please show me such a >> fstab file). >> >> So why not just use: >> >> umount $(awk '$3 == "vfat" {print $2}' /etc/fstab) >> >> instead of the seemingly canonical use of fstab-decode >> >> fstab-decode umount $(awk '$3 == "vfat" { print $2 }' /etc/fstab) > > Those samples break if the mount point directory name contains spaces, > tabs, or whatever other characters I don't know about that also get > represented by escape sequences. I'm not actually using it with > /etc/fstab, but with /proc/mounts which uses the same convention. I > can control /etc/fstab and avoid the problem, but I cannot control how > some auto-mounted foreign filesystem might be named. I have a script > that needs to be robust in the face of such names. > Get creative! Unix administration is a creative job. Having said this: Using white space within mount points is asking for trouble anyway. If you really want this in the most generic way, then do the unquoting with something like this: awk '$3 == "vfat" {print $2}' /etc/fstab | perl -pl000 -e 's/\\([0-7]{3})/chr(oct($1))/eg' | xargs -0 -n 1 -r umount This seems to be the unixy way to do this. If you really need the fstab-decode program put this in a script (if you want to be able to use commands with arguments you may choose to remove the double quotes in the argument to xargs): #!/bin/bash # a simple fstab-decode implementation.... CMD="$1" shift while [ -n "$1" ] ; do echo -E "$1" shift done | perl -pl000 -e 's/\\([0-7]{3})/chr(oct($1))/eg;' | xargs -0 -n 1 -r "$CMD" Peter