Hi,
Justin B Rye wrote:
> RabbitMQ's rabbitmqctl program, which will be used to set this password,
> cannot read input from a file. Instead the password will be passed to it
> as a quoted string, so it must not include any shell special characters
> (such as the exclamation mark) which will cause errors.
In theory, it should be possible to pass arbitrary special characters
to a program through a Bourne-style shell by surrounding the argument
with single-quotes and replacing each ' with '\'' and each ! with
'\!'. Like so:
arg_for_string () {
printf '%s\n' "$1" |
sed -e "
s/'/'\\\\''/g
s/^/'/
s/\$/'/
"
}
read arg
arg=$(arg_for_string arg)
printf 'Commandline: arg %s\n' "$arg"
Maybe doing so could allow the debconf prompt to be simplified. Is
there a bug filed about that?
Hope that helps,
Jonathan
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