On 3/1/22 05:53, Robert Nichols wrote: > It turns out that particular wheel is best resurrected from the > fstab-decode.c file in an old initscripts source package. The encoding > is nonstandard, and the above perl code would not handle it correctly. It's pretty close. It won't handle double backslash, and its use of xargs is incorrect. If you prefer a version that you don't need a C compiler to use, here's a pure bash implementation: #!/bin/sh declare -a cmdline eol=$'\n' for arg in "$@" do arg="${arg//\011/ }" arg="${arg//\012/$eol}" arg="${arg//\040/ }" arg="${arg//\134/\\}" arg="${arg//\\/\\}" cmdline+=("$arg") done "${cmdline[@]}"