Spaces in $SERVICEDESC$

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On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 08:23:46AM +0200, Elmar van Mourik wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> For performance data I use the following command:
> 
>        command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "$LASTCHECK$\t$SERVICEDESC$\t$OUTPUT$\t$PERFDATA$\r\n" >> /usr/local/nagios/var/perfdata/$HOSTNAME$-$SERVICEDESC$-perfdata.out
> 
> This is not a problem when the $SERVICEDESC$ is just a single word
> like "PING" or "HTTP". But when it's more than one word eg. "CPU Load"
> the file with the performance data is called "venus-CPU" and the first
> part of every line in the file is "Load-perfdata.out".

I suspect I'm missing something here, but is there any particular
reason you don't just put quotes around the output filename?


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