On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 10:35:52AM +0100, Sami Kerola wrote: > On 6 June 2018 at 15:50, Dominik Heidler <dheidler@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > when I run "blkid -o list" on a terminal with width >= 178 chars > > the output will be broken: > > https://paste.opensuse.org/view/raw/84899108 > > > > It will shift the table output and create longer lines than the > > terminal width generating linebreaks and breaking the readability of > > the table. > > > > I was able to reproduce this issue with util-linux-2.32. > > Hi Dominik, > > From bklid(8) manual page: > > It is recommended to use lsblk(8) command to get information about block > devices, or lsblk --fs to get an overview of filesystems, or findmnt(8) to > search in already mounted filesystems. > > lsblk(8) provides more information, better control on output formatting, > easy to use in scripts and it does not require root permissions to get > actual information. <and so on> > > Notice that the manual page also has marked --output=list deprecated > in favour of the lsblk(8) command. So it is _very_ unlikely changes to > that output format are accepted by Karel who maintains the project. > That basically means bugs in that format are now features. Yes, it seems bad idea to invest time to --output=list if we have libsmartcols based solutions. "lsblk --fs" is better solution. blkid(8) is there for backward compatibility and to have a way how to test libblkid probing code (-p). Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
