From fd311a9367ec342b7d1fa5265f4d2167a29de30d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Brian C. Lane" Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 08:56:45 -0800 Subject: [PATCH 40/40] 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 (cherry picked from commit 8d5e7329a6984614ac9951f376bc77ea7f822ca3) --- doc/C/parted.8 | 4 +++- 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 c727fb2..1b9c084 100644 --- a/doc/parted.texi +++ b/doc/parted.texi @@ -628,7 +628,9 @@ $ @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: -- 2.5.5