CentOS - Mar 2022 - Need fstab-decode for CentOS 8

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[@]}"

On 3/1/22 08:52, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> If you prefer a version that you don't need a C compiler to use, 
> here's a pure bash implementation: 

Chris Schanzle mentioned off-list that a tab character had been replaced 
with spaces (I *knew* that should have been an attached file, shame on 
me).? He also suggested an improvement that removes the tab character, 
so here's a second try.