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 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)