Special characters

[Allan Clark]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 07:43, Mark Campbell <mcc171 at psu.edu> wrote:
> I am trying to set a special character in a variable called $USER12$.
> This is then used in a command definition  check_blah -H $HOSTADDRESS$
> -u $USER11$ -p $USER12$ -l hello -s read -w $ARG1$ -c $ARG2$
>
>
> The Var definition looks like this   $USER12$=s1t\\@Home
>
>
> I have also tried s1t\@Home and 's1t at Home'  and s1t\\\\@Home.  All have
> failed.
>
> Has anyone made this work in the past?

It's difficult to know what you're actually trying to get as the value
-- are you trying for a value with "\@" or "@" in it, for example?

This may be a case of the layers of scripting and passing -- the
various escaping might get ripped off at each layer.  In that case,
the following debugging wrapper might add another layer to work with,
but it might help show what's actually getting use in your plugin
call, which can help you randomize to find the right value:

http://www.waggy.at/nagios/capture_plugin.htm

Allan


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