Hello,

please consider to support pattern matching, e.g.
parted -s /dev/sd[b-c] "print"

Best regards,

Werner

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The problem with anything like this would be that the shell would expand
the pattern, so parted itself would see the argument list as:

  parted -s /dev/sdb /dev/sdc print

The only ways I can think of to solve this would be:

 * use a different pattern syntax that doesn't collide with shell
   metacharacters (unlikely to be a good idea)
 * require users to quote the pattern to protect it from shell expansion
   (clumsy)
 * allow -s to take multiple device arguments until they stop looking
   like valid devices

But I think this is special-purpose enough that it's unlikely to be
worth the effort to implement in parted, when you could just use a shell
loop instead (granted, it's longer, but it composes nicely and the
meaning is unambiguous):

  for dev in /dev/sd[b-c]; do parted -s "$dev" print; done

You're welcome to file your request directly upstream yourself, but
since I'm not convinced that it should be implemented given the
disadvantages, I don't currently plan to forward it.

Thanks,

Hi Colin,

thank you for your fast and friendly answer. Yes, indeed
my suggestion is only small and it's easy to use
a loop instead, of course.

The idea came to me, when I used parted to
prepare some disks for RAID as well
as for LVM2. Both tools (e.g. mdadm, pvcreate) can
handle a list of devices out of the box. So I just
wondered why  parted (and sfdisk) don't.

Best regards,

Werner