Backslash problems in notifications

[HENSHAW Brad]

This one has me stumped.

I have nagios configured to send e-mail alerts to various staff when
certain host and service issues arise.
One problem I've encountered however is a complication with dealing with
the output of check_disk_smb in that its output looks something like
this:

CRITICAL: Only 1.74G (5%) free on \\10.x.x.x\d$

The relevant line in misccommands.cfg looks something like this:

command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "Alert\n-----------------\n\nIssue:
$NOTIFICATIONTYPE - $SERVICEDESC$ on $HOSTNAME$ ($HOSTALIAS$) is
$SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $DATETIME$\n\nAdditional
Info:\n$OUTPUT$\n\n---\nBlah blah blah" | /usr/bin/mail -s "**
$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ - $HOSTNAME$/$SERVICEDESC$ status is $SERVICESTATE$
**" -a "X-Priority: 1 (Highest)" $CONTACTEMAIL$

Now, for most alerts this works fine. But for the disk space alerts,
printf looks at the backslash followed by a one and reports it as being
an invalid escape sequence. The e-mail comes through but is truncated
from the word "on", thus blasting away the last half of the alert
message.

I had thought of piping the text to sed and doing a substitution on
backslashes followed by certain characters before passing to printf, but
I can't think of a way to do this since `echo` (which I could pipe to
sed) breaks in a similar fashion.

Has anyone figured out a way to deal with backslashes in command output
which screw up printf? (other than by modifying check_disk_smb)

Any input is appreciated!

Regards,
Brad

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