BSD::Getfsent 0.17

BSD::Getfsent is a Perl module that can be used to get file system descriptor file entry.

SYNOPSIS

 use BSD::Getfsent qw(getfsent);

 while (@entry = getfsent()) {
 print "@entry
";
 }

FUNCTIONS

getfsent

In list context, each file system entry is returned (getfsent() continuously reads the next line of the /etc/fstab file).

The list returned is structured as follows:

 $entry[0] # block special device name
 $entry[1] # file system path prefix
 $entry[2] # type of file system
 $entry[3] # comma separated mount options
 $entry[4] # rw, ro, sw, or xx
 $entry[5] # dump frequency, in days
 $entry[6] # pass number on parallel fsck

In scalar context, total of entries is returned.

FILES

/etc/fstab

EXPORT

getfsent() is exportable.


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· Perl