Re: quoting and parentheses in ExecResult?

[Eric Sorenson]

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Steve Wray wrote:

> For reference, the original, commandline looks like this:
> /bin/echo baz|sed -e "s/^\(.*\)$/&.conf/g"
> 
> My question, then, is how (apart from using an actual script in a file)
> does one quote and escape such an expression to fit it into ExecResult?

To short-circuit cfengine trying to expand this, instead of trying 
a literal $ you can use the $(dollar) construct.

http://www.cfengine.org/docs/cfengine-Reference.html#Special-variables

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