[Nagios-users] $OUTPUT$ as shell script parameter

[Jason Martin]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 08:52:16AM +0800, nagios at mm.quex.org wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 12:10:55PM -0700, Jason Martin wrote:
> 
> > Try surrounding the output macro with single quotes, ex
> > '$OUTPUT$'. The shell won't evaluate special characters inside
> > the single-quotes.
> 
> Has there be any thought toward making the macro values available
> via environment variables?  This would be good for commands that want
> to be "intelligent" and have access to all the available information
> (for which writing the commands out and parsing all the arguments is a
> bit tedious), and also solves the problem of having to strip certain
> characters from command output and user comments for fear of
> inadvertently executing them.
Now that is an interesting idea; are there any limits on the
length of an environmental variable that would interfere? Does
it work the same way across platforms?

-Jason Martin
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