Re: [Fab-user] Disabling auto-escaping for run and sudo

[Jeff Forcier]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Sign Up <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm using fabric 1.4 and need the ability to pass unmolested dollar signs to
> bash, so that I can use bash's own special string expansion ( like this:
> $'\044').  When I pass commands with this syntax through run or sudo, the
> dollar sign gets escaped.  Is there any way to turn this escaping off
> without setting shell=False?

Sadly, not at the moment. I'll make a ticket for adding an env var
and/or kwarg to allow disabling escaping, though -- should've been
done long ago, honestly. Assuming it's as quick to hack in as I think,
it'll be ready for the next release (1.6) which won't be far off.

Best,
Jeff

>
> Thanks!
>
> Eric
>
>
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