how to wrap long lines in config?

[Ralph.Grothe at itdz-berlin.de]

You are to aggree to.

I too was turned off by command_line attribute lines that
incorporate many arguments thus
becoming far too long and defeating readabilty.

I got the reply that the nagios config file parser wasn't yet
ready to handle backslash escaped newline chars.
(if Nagios can be run on many OSs that have a deviating  notion
about line breaks (e.g. MS \015\012 vs. Unix \012
this could be the reason, I guess)

We should put line break issue on the developers' TODO list.
Who should be given notice?

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> Subject: [Nagios-users] how to wrap long lines in config?
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> 
> some of the config lines look real ugly.  like:
> 
>        command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "Nagios 
> System\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: 
> $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: 
> $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: 
> $LONGDATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$SERVICEOUTPUT$" | 
> /usr/bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert - 
> $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$
> 
> 
> is it possible to wrap these ala bash to make them look sane?
e.g.:
> 
> command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" \
> "Nagios System\n\n\
> Notification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\n\
> Service: $SERVICEDESC$\n\
> Host: $HOSTALIAS$\n\
> Address: $HOSTADDRESS$\n\
> State: $SERVICESTATE$\n\n\
> Date/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n\n\
> Additional Info:\n\n\
> $SERVICEOUTPUT$" \
> | /usr/bin/mail -s \
> "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert - \
> $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" \
> $CONTACTEMAIL$
> 
> 
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