On Sep 6, 2010, at 6:57 AM, Jelle Smet wrote: > _blah "one two three four" a b c d > > I want to use this custom variable in a command to execute like this: > > define command{ > > command_name check_linux_nrpe_all_disks > > command_line /bin/echo $_HOSTBLAH$ > /tmp/fubar.txt > > } > > > In /tmp/fubar.txt I have this line of text without the quotes: > one two three fou a b c d
That's what 'echo "one two three four" a b c d > /tmp/fubar.txt' does on the command line -- $ echo "one two three four" a b c d > /tmp/fubar.txt $ cat /tmp/fubar.txt one two three four a b c d > How can I keep the quotes? They can be single or double quotes it doesn't > matter. command_line /bin/echo '$_HOSTBLAH$' > /tmp/fubar.txt $ echo '"one two three four" a b c d' > /tmp/fubar.txt $ cat /tmp/fubar.txt "one two three four" a b c d -- Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null