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

[john heasley]

Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 01:37:35PM -0400, Ryan West:
> Have you tried an escape "\" ?

that will not work.  We'd have to add logic to do that.  I'd lean toward
doing that.  one hack option would be to encode it as its ascii value;
59 or 0x3b.  But, I dont recall off the top how to do that encoding for
tcl's printf (expect's send).

> Not sure it would help, but worth a try.
> 
> -ryan
> 
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> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 1:02 PM
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> Subject: [rancid] Cisco commands containing ';'...
> 
> 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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