After some more research I'm now almost completly sure that this isn't the
problem.
My test was running a batch script with UNC paths. Running the batch script
locally works fine, with fabric it fails...

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Thomas Coopman
<[email protected]>wrote:

> I do not think this is a problem with escaped backslashes as in cygwin you
> can also use forward slashes.
> Furthermore, I have tried to copy the executed command of fabric and
> running that directly works.
>
> --
> Thomas Coopman
> [email protected]
>
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> On May 29, 2012 6:43 PM, "Jeff Forcier" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Thomas Coopman
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>>
>> > For example:
>> > something like run("net use '\\unc\share' /user:thomas") will give me
>> "The
>> > network name cannot be found.
>> > If I use ssh to connect to the server of the run config with the same
>> user
>> > this works fine.
>>
>> While I can't support this with direct experience, not using Windows
>> for systems tasks, my best guess here is that it's the backslashes
>> getting escaped or being treated as escape sequences, by Python itself
>> or at the Fabric level (we do some munging of commands to try and help
>> common issues.)
>>
>> You should be able to verify this by looking at the output when an
>> error occurs -- Fabric should be showing both the "requested" and
>> "executed" versions of the command that blew up, with "executed"
>> showing the raw, escaped/modified/wrapped command.
>>
>> If your command isn't actually erroring out, you can run with fab
>> --show=debug and it will print the "executed" version of run commands
>> in the "[host] run: <command>" lines, so that's another way to
>> sanity-check this.
>>
>> At any rate, the first thing I'd try in your case if it does look like
>> the slashes aren't showing up right, is to use a Python 'raw' string
>> type, which will cause e.g. double-backslashes to show up correctly.
>> Simply slap a 'r' in front of the string literal, e.g.: run(r"net use
>> ...").
>>
>> Best,
>> Jeff
>>
>> --
>> Jeff Forcier
>> Unix sysadmin; Python/Ruby engineer
>> http://bitprophet.org
>>
>


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