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+.\" A man page for fstab-decode(8).
+.\"
+.\" Copyright (C) 2006 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" This copyrighted material is made available to anyone wishing to use,
+.\" modify, copy, or redistribute it subject to the terms and conditions of the
+.\" GNU General Public License v.2.
+.\"
+.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+.\" ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+.\" FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for
+.\" more details.
+.\"
+.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
+.\" with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+.\" 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
+.\"
+.\" Author: Miloslav Trmac <mitr@redhat.com>
+.TH fstab-decode 8 "May 2006"
+
+.SH NAME
+fstab-decode \- run a command with fstab-encoded arguments
+
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+\fB fstab-decode\fR \fICOMMAND\fR [\fIARGUMENT\fR]...
+
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B fstab-decode
+decodes escapes in the specified \FIARGUMENT\fRs
+and uses them to run \fICOMMAND\fR.
+The argument escaping uses the same rules as path escaping in
+\fB/etc/fstab\fR,
+.B /etc/mtab
+and \fB/proc/mtab\fR.
+
+.SH EXIT STATUS
+.B fstab-decode
+exits with status 127 if
+.I COMMAND
+can't be run.
+Otherwise it exits with the status returned by \fICOMMAND\fR.
+
+.SH EXAMPLES
+
+.B fstab-decode umount $(awk '$3 == "vfat" { print $2 }' /etc/fstab)