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| author | Brian C. Lane <bcl@redhat.com> | 2015-11-06 08:56:45 -0800 |
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| committer | Brian C. Lane <bcl@redhat.com> | 2016-12-22 13:57:52 -0800 |
| commit | 35b742afe520cac7975f09224dd3489601b4c10f (patch) | |
| tree | 287ae1f0f3f921a3b47135cbd712fab0b9afefb6 /doc | |
| parent | f2ace5e95742cb20fdce8b551953a1b89c28135f (diff) | |
| download | parted-35b742afe520cac7975f09224dd3489601b4c10f.tar.gz | |
doc: Add information about quoting
Some shells (bash) will strip off the " so it needs to be
wrapped in '' to prevent it. eg.
parted -s ./disk.img mkpart '"EFI System Partition"' 1M 500M
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/C/parted.8 | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/parted.texi | 4 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/C/parted.8 b/doc/C/parted.8 index 41baa1a..eb7cd98 100644 --- a/doc/C/parted.8 +++ b/doc/C/parted.8 @@ -82,7 +82,9 @@ dvh partition tables, it should be one of "primary", "logical", or "extended". .TP .B name \fIpartition\fP \fIname\fP Set the name of \fIpartition\fP to \fIname\fP. This option works only on Mac, -PC98, and GPT disklabels. The name can be placed in quotes, if necessary. +PC98, and GPT disklabels. The name can be placed in double quotes, if necessary. +And depending on the shell may need to also be wrapped in single quotes so that +the shell doesn't strip off the double quotes. .TP .B print Display the partition table. diff --git a/doc/parted.texi b/doc/parted.texi index c55d343..ac23ef6 100644 --- a/doc/parted.texi +++ b/doc/parted.texi @@ -654,7 +654,9 @@ $ @kbd{mkfs.vfat /dev/sdX2} @deffn Command name @var{number} @var{name} Sets the name for the partition @var{number} (GPT, Mac, MIPS and PC98 only). -The name can be placed in quotes. +The name can be placed in quotes. And depending on the shell may need to also +be wrapped in single quotes so that the shell doesn't strip off the double +quotes. Example: |