Hi, it aint our issue: we dont actually need to include escape chars into strings, our need is - for example - to escape delimitators ( ", ' ) inside command lines; in fact ,we're used to compose very complex tiny scripts with subshells for the 'command' field into 'exec' resources, etc..
Please help, greets, Matteo 2011/2/9 Felix Frank <felix.fr...@alumni.tu-berlin.de> > On 02/08/2011 04:09 PM, mt321_0987 wrote: > > unfortunately, we keep getting this warns into the system log by > > puppet masters: > > > > " [...] Unrecognised escape sequence '\<CHAR>' in file <PATH> [...] " > > > > but then everything works fine; also, without using escapes, catalogs > > dont work on agents. > > What can we do to avoid these kind of errors in master syslogs? > > > > Please ,let us know ASAP and tell us if this problem will prevent > > remote execution in future versions, thanks > > If you have strings that include backslashes, you should really escape > those backslashes, i.e.: > > onlyif => "grep two\ words /tmp/file", # WRONG! > > onlyif => "grep two\\ words /tmp/file", # right > > In some cases, you can use single quotes instead > > onlyif => 'grep two\ words /tmp/file', # right too > > but you loose flexibility. I urge you to get your escapes right. > > HTH, > Felix > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
