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On 01/09/2019 08:14 AM, David Wright wrote:
> On Wed 09 Jan 2019 at 13:54:45 (+0000), Curt wrote:
>> On 2019-01-09, rhkramer@gmail.com <rhkramer@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, January 09, 2019 03:01:42 AM Richard Hector wrote:
>>>> On 9/01/19 6:04 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>>>>> lsblk -l -o name,label | sort | script
>>>>
>>>> lsblk -ln -o name,label |sort | <script>
>>>
>>> I'm not the OP, but I very much like the way you put script in angle brackets
>>> to show that is a parameter (mcow) and not a literal value!!
>>
>> I'll see that affection for mundane angle brackets and raise you the
>> annoyance of not having received the vaguest clue as to what might be
>> found literally inside them (the pertinent part, at the very least).
> 
> I don't think the OP told us what the script was,

'Cause ain't written yet ;)
I needed to know if the data was available in a suitable format.
As this should be in a script initialization section, I believe 
redirection is more appropriate than pipes.

One line of my script will be:
   > lsblk -l -o name,label | sort > /home/richard/mydata.txt

> but just that they
> want to pipe the output into "a script". Using angle brackets from the
> start (or knowing that script itself is a program) would have avoided
> the mess in the other subthread.

I had no problem interpreting Jude's post.
My personal convention would have been to write it as
"lsblk -l -o name,label | sort | myscript".

BUT. I read Jude's and Reco's posts at midnight.
Reco's answer of "lsblk -l -x name -o name,label" was better.
I just tried Jude's as I read it after Jude's.
I should reply only when really awake ;/