Ok before i begin I just want to promise I WILL reply to any posts you may offer. It was brought to my attention that i was forgetting about replying. Ok that said I'll continue. Well I want to list all physical usb drives in a combobox.  I found this commadn

lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE | awk '$2 == "" { print $0 }'

which gives me the exact results. However I can't figure out how to incorporate it into a combobox. I did it with printers and that was great but try as i might i can't figure this one out. I SWEAR I took some time to work this one out, I'm not just running to this forum every time  i encounter a problem.
Anyway is this doable ?
Thanks in advance!

 I tried running the above mentioned command as shell but I does'nt give me any output. However the command lsblk | grep disk gives me something close to what i want.

 Hey guys. I don't mean to sound strange but have i been blacklisted because i didn't reply?

No , and once again my harmless dig was not about you replying but it was about you asking a question that had been answered in the previous post you made.

So it was about you "NOT reading the replies, nothing to do with if you had replied or not.

I did a google search on how to detect usb disks for you and came up with this after seeing that TRAN can define the usb disks.
So i make a shell command that runs lsblk to get the disk information of the usb disks it detects with it's previous lsblk call
to detect usb drives…
lsblk -o PATH,TRAN| grep usb

 Hey brucesteers, sorry if i came across as over sensitive. It's in my nature. That command is great. It's better than what I've been getting.I've tried putting what i know about adding printers to a listbox but I'm coming up blank. Could you perhaps maybe help me out AGAIN!!!

 sorry BruceSteers i didn't see the code you gave me. I'll try it out right now and I SWEAR i'll get back to you.

Hello again! Ok i tried what you gave me

Dim sReturn As String
Shell "IFS=$'\n'; for s in $(lsblk -o PATH,TRAN| grep usb); do lsblk -o 'MOUNTPOINT,SIZE' ${s%% *}|grep /; done" To sReturn
ComboBox1.List = Split(sReturn, "\n", Null, True)

but nothing's coming up in the combobox
I tried replacing the shell command with something different but still coming up empty.

I apologize if I@m doing your head in.

theyikes said

I've tried putting what i know about adding printers to a listbox but I'm coming up blank. Could you perhaps maybe help me out AGAIN!!!

For printers you can use..

Printer.List  (gb.form.print)
/comp/gb.qt4/printer - Gambas Documentation

theyikes said

Hello again! Ok i tried what you gave me

Dim sReturn As String
Shell "IFS=$'\n'; for s in $(lsblk -o PATH,TRAN| grep usb); do lsblk -o 'MOUNTPOINT,SIZE' ${s%% *}|grep /; done" To sReturn
ComboBox1.List = Split(sReturn, "\n", Null, True)

but nothing's coming up in the combobox
I tried replacing the shell command with something different but still coming up empty.

I apologize if I@m doing your head in.

Works fine here , it lists ALL my plugged in usb disk drives.
I take it you have usb disks plugged in?

BruceSteers I think i have it. I modded what you agve me and i ran it and i pretty much got what i was looking for. Here's what i came up with:

Dim sReturn As String
Shell "lsblk | grep disk" To sReturn
ListBox1.Add(sReturn)

It's almost 100% accurate.

Thanks A MILLION for your help, Honestly there's isn't a snowballs chance in hell i could have done it without you.

Who knows maybe sometime in the distant future someone will stumble upon this and learn from it.
Cheers

 oops! i was wrong, the code i mentioned only seems to add all the drives as one item in the listbox. it doesn't seem to separate them as multiple dirves. I was so happy, i thought I FINALLY got it,,  I guess i got too happy too soon.

theyikes said

BruceSteers I think i have it. I modded what you agve me and i ran it and i pretty much got what i was looking for. Here's what i came up with:

Dim sReturn As String
Shell "lsblk | grep disk" To sReturn
ListBox1.Add(sReturn)

It's almost 100% accurate.

Thanks A MILLION for your help, Honestly there's isn't a snowballs chance in hell i could have done it without you.

Who knows maybe sometime in the distant future someone will stumble upon this and learn from it.
Cheers

So you wasn't actually wanting USB drives like you asked for , you just wanted a list of all disks.

Yes let's hope they learn all they need to know.

you havent "modded" my code you just wrote your own, and your code is only adding one item , the entire list as one string.
Shell "lsblk | grep disk" To sReturn
ListBox1.Add(sReturn)

is that almost 100% accurate?

this would be what you want like in my previous code example before you wrote your own.
ListBox1.List = Split(sReturn,"\n", Null, True)

Ok that worked PERFECTLY !!!! I have to ask, how long have you been using Gambas?

theyikes said

Ok that worked PERFECTLY !!!! I have to ask, how long have you been using Gambas?

Right now it feels like too long  …     

I don't know , it was gambas2 when I originally started.

 Man i wish i knew half of what you know. I'd love to be the one answering questions instead of asking them.

Okay! This worked:

  Dim sReturn As String
Shell " lsblk –nodeps –paths –output NAME,TRAN | grep usb | awk '{print $1}' " To sReturn
 ListBox1.List = Split(sReturn, "\n", Null, True)

it just gives me the list of physical drives without any text.

Thanks guys!!!

If you did not want to use “Shell”, you could use the resources of the external library “libudev”.

This code will enumerate all devices belonging to 'block' subsystem and omit partitions and loop devices: