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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Fdisk and grep command not working in udev trigger Post 303023189 by lxdorney on Wednesday 12th of September 2018 06:58:06 PM
Old 09-12-2018
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Originally Posted by Scott
Looking at the output(mount /media/usb/test), DEVNAME is not set. It looks like the previous fdisk command is not returning anything. What is fdisk -l |grep FAT16 |awk '{print $1}' returning if you run it manually?

If DEVNAME isn't set, the won't get the name, and will look for it in the fstab / mtab for how / what to mount.
Supposedly it will return /dev/sdb1 in my case, already tried manually like this DEVNAME="/dev/sdb1" and put echo $DEVNAME and i see the output, but is not mounting
 

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synce-pmv

PMV(1)							   http://synce.sourceforge.net/						    PMV(1)

NAME

       pmv - move (rename) files

SYNOPSIS

       pmv [- LEVEL] [-p DEVNAME] [-h] SOURCE DESTINATION

DESCRIPTION

       pmv renames or moves a file on a device connected through SynCE.

       Forward slashes ('/') on the command line are converted to backward slashes ('').

OPTIONS

       -d LEVEL
	      Set debug log level:

	      0 - No logging (default)

	      1 - Errors only

	      2 - Errors and warnings

	      3 - Everything

       -p DEVNAME
	      Use the device with the given name, instead of the default.

       -h     Display help message.

       SOURCE Full path to the current filename.

       DESTINATION
	      Full path to the new filename.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by David Eriksson <twogood@users.sourceforge.net>.

SEE ALSO

       synce(1) pcp(1) pls(1) prm(1) pmkdir(1) prmdir(1)

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