[rancid] Cisco commands containing ';'...

[Jon Peatfield]

I may have been expecting too much but I wanted to run:

  clogin -c 'conf t; boot system flash:bootimage1;flash:bootimage2; exit' a b c

to set the boot path on a set of identical switches.  Of course clogin 
splits the command at the ; in the middle of the boot system command so 
that fails...

So I thought I need to use -x and pass a file with the lines but that also 
fails because it seems that clogin actually joins the lines from the file 
with ; and then treats is just as if it was a -c option (ie it splits it 
at all ; again).

So is there a way to bypass the split and get a real ; into a command?

A glance through the code doesn't suggest anything obvious but I may be 
missing a trick...

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