Re: quoting and parentheses in ExecResult?

[Steve Wray]

Eric Sorenson wrote:
> 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.

hah, no, I tried that and interestingly -- very interestingly -- had
*exactly* the same output as when using a bare dollar sign.

Well, when I say *exactly* I mean:

<$(dollar)/&.conf/g\"")>

:)

Oh and Mark, this is with the version I d/l'd last night (the hourly
image, I see it as "2.1.16a")


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