bug#22387: Non-interactive use and errors

"Brian C. Lane" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.parted.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 08:11:26PM +0100, Narcis Garcia wrote:
> Hello, I'm trying to call parted from a ShellScript to get details from
> block devices:
> 
> $ parted /dev/OneDevice print
> 
> But when I specify a removable device, it expects user interaction:
> Error: Error opening /dev/OneDevice: No medium found
> Retry/Cancel?
> 
> Is there any way to avoid this and get only the error message and status?

Use script mode:

parted -s /dev/blah print

Any user interaction will take the 'safe' choice, not changing any data.

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