How to detect NTFS/exFAT filing system type fronm script

Thanks to the other posters for replying/suggesting. Here is my full solution.

df -P can be used to obtain device from path, and that can be fed to lsblk --fs to obtain exact file system. So a one-liner is:

fs=$( lsblk --fs --noheadings $( df -P $path | awk 'END{print $1}' ) | awk 'END{print $2}' )

If all you need to know is that the file system is fuseblk --- which covers both ntfs & exfat and turns out in the end to be sufficient for my purposes after all --- this can be determined with the much simpler:

fs=$( stat -f -c '%T' $path )

I'm not sure I follow your question completely, so I'll offer this as a "point of departure". If it gets you close, I'm sure you can tweak it to get what you need:

$ lsblk --fs | grep / | awk '{print $1, $2}'  

what about df . and mount ?

first let's get mount point

 cd /a/dir
 mp=$(df . | awk 'NR==2 { print $1}')

• $mp while hold device name hoding /a/dir

now, mount point

mount | awk -v mp=$mp '$1 == mp { print $5}'

this should return mount type (be it xfs, etx3, ...)

edit:

• I see my answer is covered in one of the link, you might whish to explore line returned by mount, not just $5