the quoting is required for commands that contain special characters such as whitespace.
It looks like augeas is not parsing that type of command correctly. Marking as 'Confirmed' as I was able to reproduce with importance 'Low'. ** Changed in: augeas (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: augeas (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/838010 Title: /usr/share/augeas/lenses/dist/aliases.aug does not parse valid /etc/aliases file To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/augeas/+bug/838010/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs