But this does not have balanced quotes or parentheses, so it doesn't make much sense to me. You can't have a semi-quoted exoression in any language..
M On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 08:04 +1200, Steve Wray wrote: > Eric Sorenson wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Steve Wray wrote: > > > > > >>For reference, the original, commandline looks like this: > >>/bin/echo baz|sed -e "s/^\(.*\)$/&.conf/g" > >> > >>My question, then, is how (apart from using an actual script in a file) > >>does one quote and escape such an expression to fit it into ExecResult? > > > > > > To short-circuit cfengine trying to expand this, instead of trying > > a literal $ you can use the $(dollar) construct. > > hah, no, I tried that and interestingly -- very interestingly -- had > *exactly* the same output as when using a bare dollar sign. > > Well, when I say *exactly* I mean: > > <$(dollar)/&.conf/g\"")> > > :) > > Oh and Mark, this is with the version I d/l'd last night (the hourly > image, I see it as "2.1.16a") > > > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > Help-cfengine@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
