That works. Many thanks.
“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh Cooper" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 12:16:54 AM Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] Looking to repair "Unrecognised escape sequence" if possible On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Dan White < [email protected] > wrote: The recent traffic about " puppet master --compile ... " got me tinkering with it. I found a lot of old syntax in my templates, so I added "@" in front of all the current scope variables. That got rid of all the grumbles but one: Warning: Unrecognised escape sequence '\1' Warning: Unrecognised escape sequence '\2' from one of my manifests/init.pp files. The offending code can be found here: https://github.com/mcgonagle/puppet_nist/blob/master/nist/modules/umask/manifests/init.pp ...at the end of the file, define umask-replace($file) { exec { "umask_replace_${file}": command => "/bin/sed -i -r 's/(umask)([ \t]*)[0-9]{3}/\1\2077/gi' $file", onlyif => "/usr/bin/test `/bin/egrep -i '(umask|UMASK)[[:space:]]*[0-9]{3}' $file | /bin/egrep -v -i '(umask|UMASK)[[:space:]]*077' | /bin/wc -l` -ne 0"; } } Specifically, the "command" line Since you're in a double quoted string, I assume the \1 and \2 backreferences need to be escaped: "/bin/sed -i -r 's/(umask)([ \t]*)[0-9]{3}/\\1\\2077/gi' $file", Josh -- Josh Cooper Developer, Puppet Labs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CA%2Bu97ukxB7axgr4qEDj9o41qfFW34ovgyGjfK8tKXw2XecX20w%40mail.gmail.com . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/1411571707.4522620.1384352892082.JavaMail.root%40sz0126a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
