Even with the -m and/or -s option which are supposely designed to make parted machine-readable, it still mixes error messages and warnings on stdout. In practice this makes it not machine-readable at all.
Example: $ truncate -s 1M /tmp/test1.img $ parted -m -- /tmp/test1.img unit b print WARNING: You are not superuser. Watch out for permissions. Error: /tmp/test1.img: unrecognised disk label BYT; /tmp/test1.img:1048576B:file:512:512:unknown:; The "WARNING:..." and "Error:..." lines go to stdout. These patches fix most of the problems, sending errors and warnings to stderr where they belong. Parsing can now be attempted more sanely: $ ~/d/parted/parted/parted -m -- /tmp/test1.img unit b print 2>/dev/null BYT; /tmp/test1.img:1048576B:file:512:512:unknown:; Rich. _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
