Hello,
Thanks for the feedback. Your code works with all special characters that
I've used, but I run into a problem when there are two backslashes (\\)
side-by-side in a password.
Is there any way to fix this?
Regards,
Mark
On Wednesday, April 1, 2020 at 1:14:36 PM UTC-4, Mark T. wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> - name: Determining Source Account DB Password
> shell: cat wp-config.php | grep DB_PASSWORD | awk -F"['']" '{print $4}'
> register: wp_dbpw_source
>
> If the password contains a backslash, the output doubles the number of
> backslashes.
>
> abc\*# becomes abc\\*#
>
> I'm aware extra escape characters are only for display purposes, and not
> actually sent to the command.
>
> But the distorted password output prevents the script from accessing the
> database. When I remove the backslash from the password, the script works
> again.
>
> Is there a way to output a shell command using grep, cat or awk that
> doesn't cause this distortion?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark T.
>
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