From d83c4be5ed4b2effa8487c084f9b1e99200ea7e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Reynegton Pinheiro Nunes <68282012+reynegton@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:46:18 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] fix: use portable whitespace matching in awk UUID parsing
 (#441)

The awk expressions parsing `btrfs subvolume show` used `\s`, a GNU
extension. mawk and the One True Awk treat it as a literal `s`, so
`/^\s*UUID/` never matches a tab-indented line and the UUID comes back
empty. Since `awk` is mawk by default on Debian, Ubuntu and derivatives,
grub-mkconfig aborted there with "UUID of the root subvolume is not
available".

Replace `\s` with `[ \t]`, which every awk implementation supports and
which matches the notation already used by the gsub on the same line.

Closes #425
---
 41_snapshots-btrfs | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/41_snapshots-btrfs b/41_snapshots-btrfs
index 20e7baa..49cc0df 100755
--- a/41_snapshots-btrfs
+++ b/41_snapshots-btrfs
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ fi
 
 # Root subvolume UUID
 root_uuid_subvolume="$(btrfs subvolume show / 2>/dev/null | \
-                       awk -F':' '/^\s*UUID/ {gsub(/^[ \t]+/, "", $2); print $2}')"
+                       awk -F':' '/^[ \t]*UUID/ {gsub(/^[ \t]+/, "", $2); print $2}')"
 [ -z "$root_uuid_subvolume" ] && print_error "UUID of the root subvolume is not available"
 
 # ---------- Boot partition ----------
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ fi
 # If /boot is not a Btrfs subvolume, reuse root subvol UUID
 boot_uuid_subvolume="$(
     btrfs subvolume show "${boot_directory}" 2>/dev/null | \
-        awk -F':' '/^\s*UUID/ {gsub(/^[ \t]+/, "", $2); print $2; exit}'
+        awk -F':' '/^[ \t]*UUID/ {gsub(/^[ \t]+/, "", $2); print $2; exit}'
 )"
 [ -z "$boot_uuid_subvolume" ] && boot_uuid_subvolume="$root_uuid_subvolume"