Command line format for external notification.

[Andreas Ericsson]

Paul L. Allen wrote:
> Andreas Ericsson writes:
> 
>> This won't work if $SERVICEDESC$ also has spaces, which it legally can 
>> have.
> 
> 
> Good point.
> 
>> Put single quotes around the macros (outside the dollar signs). This 
>> will fail if any of the parameters contains single quotes as well, but 
>> will work otherwise, unless your shell is broken.
> 
> 
> There is bound to be a plugin which, in at least some circumstances, has
> a single quote in the output, since the single quote serves as both a
> quotation mark and an apostrophe.

Not that I've noticed, although I haven't browsed all the translation 
files. Single and double quotes are intentionally left out from plugin 
output for this precise reason. The only exception is perfdata which 
isn't usually sent along with notifications.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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