[Gptfdisk-general] machine readable output from sgdisk and creating partitions with colons in the labels

[Andrew J. <and...@co...>]

Are there any plans to support machine readable output from sgdisk?
Currently, sgdisk does not support any output formatting options.
Allowing output in the form of key/value pairs (like the ones
generated by `blkid -o export`) or json would be helpful to other
programs which need to consume and parse sgdisk's output.

sgdisk also does not support creating partitions with colons in the
labels since they are used as delimiters in the command line
arguments. Looking at getString() in gptcl.cc, it does not look like
escaping colons is supported. Is this intentional?

-Andrew Jeddeloh

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