SPUG: Quoting Question

[Asa Martin]

The echo line should be:

$ssh->send("echo \"$line\" >> $new_file");

That's the line that isn't working right.

Thanks!


On 10/16/06, Asa Martin <asa.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Long-time lurker, infrequent poster, but I have this really annoying
> quoting question. I'm writing a remote SSH script (but not using Net::SSH so
> any solution can't utilize any special Net::SSH stuff). I log into a remote
> system using ssh, read a file from the remote system into memory, parse
> through it line by line, and on certain lines make substitutions. Then I
> need to write the new file to the system. I am trying to send the changed
> stuff to the new file using the echo command, but it's not working very
> well.
>
> For example:
>
> for my $line (@array_of_lines)
>     if ($line =~ /com2sec\s+.*$stuff_to_match/) {
>         $line =~ s/$stuff_to_match/$new_stuff/;
>     }
>     $ssh->send('echo "$line"'); # this expands stuff I don't want it to!
> }
>
> $stuff_to_match and $new_stuff contain special characters, like quotes, $,
> @, etc. that I don't want expanded in the regular expression. And $line
> contains tabs, quotations, special characters, including # signs and $
> signs, etc. I'll want the white space and quotes to come across correctly,
> but any variable names that might be in $line I don't want expanded.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Asa
>
> P.S. The remote system is a Linux-type box (F5 Load Balancer) so I have
> the full set of Linux tools available if something better than echo would
> work. The problem is that I have only that one send() routine of some
> unknown SSH module.
>
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