Ferk
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1 year ago Thanks for the PR! But are you sure that it works?
I think the '' is just closing the quote and then opening it.. so '$2==''$dir''{exit 1}' is equivalent to just writing '$2==$dir{exit 1}' (the string $dir is being sent to awk instead of the content of the variable, I'm not sure if awk can use environment variables directly that way).
dir='this is a dir' && echo '$2=="'$dir'"{exit 1}'
# result: $2=="this is a dir"{exit 1}
dir='this is a dir' && echo '$2==''$dir''{exit 1}'
# result: $2==$dir{exit 1}
dir='this is a dir' && echo '$2==$dir{exit 1}'
# result: $2==$dir{exit 1}If you want to send ' instead of " to awk, you could escape the inside ' so it actually sends it and the content of the variable can be surrounded by single quotes instead of double quotes, like below.
dir='this is a dir' && echo '$2=='\'$dir\''{exit 1}'
# result: $2=='this is a dir'{exit 1}But it's likely switching the quotes like this won't make a difference. Most likely there's other reason for the problem. Like how awk might be taking only the first word as the $2 element.
Also, I don't understand why this would be the line that would be the cause of the problem, since that line is just for preventing cleaning folders that have been manually configured into /etc/fstab, and that shouldn't be your case, since those are explicitly prevented from being automounted at all by the script in the first place.
I'm not at my home computer right now, but once I return and get the chance I'll run some tests with a removable device with spaces in the label, to try and reproduce your problem.
timsummerer
When automounting an exFAT Disk with a space in the partition label, a duplicate mount was created because the space in the awk command was not escaped. By using '' instead of "", the space is escaped properly and only one mount point is created for the affected partition/thumb drive.