On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Oliver Fromme <o...@lurza.secnetix.de> wrote: > Chuck Swiger wrote: > > On Jun 15, 2012, at 11:23 AM, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > You can try to prepend a backslash, i.e. echo \$devnum. This > > > isn't documented, but then again, using backslashes to continue > > > strings that span multiple lines isn't documented either. > > > > Line continuations and escaping special chars like $ are in "man sh": > > Yes, I know that, but the question is how devd(8) parses the > action strings. > > The problem here is that we have multiple levels or parsing. > First, devd reads the line, concatenates continuation lines > (apparently -- it's not documented), expands devd variables, > and *then* it passes the resulting string to the shell for > further parsing and processing.
If you have that many levels of backticks, variable expansions, programs, etc, wouldn't it be a prime candidate for a script? Just pass in a couple of variables directly from devd, and then do everything else inside the script? -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"