Do you mean the actual password has two, or the escaped string had two
(meaning the password has one)?

On Thu, 14 May 2020 at 21:38, Mark T. <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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