fstab-decode - run a command with fstab-encoded arguments

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.

       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-decodeumount$(awk'$3=="vfat"{print$2}'/etc/fstab)

fstab-decode exits with status 127 if COMMAND can't be run.  Otherwise it exits with the status  returned
       by COMMAND.

       fstab-decode - run a command with fstab-encoded arguments

fstab(5)

sysvinit                                            May 2006                                     FSTAB-DECODE(8)

fstab-decodeCOMMAND [ARGUMENT ...]