[Omaha.pm] Net::SSH::Perl Alternative Solution

Dan Linder dan at linder.org
Fri Dec 14 11:56:23 PST 2007


Tony Simons wrote:
> Even though I don't really like the idea of using a password in a script
> I've decided to work with an alternative that works as well...may even
> be a shorter script. Net::SSH::Expect
>
> Jay, I have a question for you if you have the time.
> Lets say I have some variables in a script that I want to dump out to
> the serial number file.  I'm having troubles with the "" part and
> writing that to the file.  Ideas?
>
> Example
> SERIALNUMBER="asdf123123123"
>
>   

Use the \ to escape the embedded quotes.

printf "SERIALNUMBER=\"asdf123123123\"";

...or use single quotes -- ' -- to keep all internal quotes from being seen.

printf 'SERIALNUMBER="asdf123123123"';

Dan

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