Re: Append line with a backslash at the end?

[Mark Burgess]

On 23 Sep, Lars Damerow wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I want to use cfengine to write a file that has backslashes as the
> last character of some of its lines. I can't find the right way to do
> it, though.
> 
> I tried using this:
> 
>     Append "foobar \\"
>     Append "blah \\"
> 
> but cfengine insists on using the backslash to escape the quote at the
> end of the line, giving me this QSTRING:
> 
> QSTRING "foobar \\"
>             Append "
> 
> I get the same QSTRING if I only put one backslash. If I put a space
> in between the slashes and the quote, cfengine gets close:
> 
> QSTRING "foobar \ "
> 
> ...but am-utils won't read lines with a space after the continuation
> character.
> 
> How does one do this correctly? Please CC me on any responses as I
> don't belong to the list.
> 
> Thanks very much!
> -lars
> 
> ___________________________________________________________
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> 
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Hi. You don't say what version you are using, but this works for me:



control: actionsequence = ( editfiles )


editfiles:

{ /tmp/inetd.conf

AppendIfNoSuchLine "nsland\\"

}

I am using 2.1.0b2, but that is essentially the same as
2.0.8p1 and higher which you ought to upgrade to ASAP.

M


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