Double escaping in $ARGx$

[Andreas Ericsson]

Thomas Guyot-Sionnest wrote:
> 
> A bit off-topic, but I believe it would be nice to have a way to execute
> commands directly rather than using the shell. I'm thinking of a
> different command option that could be used instead of "command_line"...
> i.e.:
> 
> command_exec $USER1$/check_dummy!1!WARNING: $SERVICEDESC$ is stale.
> 
> Basically, the first argument is the full path to the executable, and
> following ones are the argument array passed to execve. Bangs (!) would
> be argument separators (like in service definitions) with maybe the
> possibility of escaping them (otherwise a bang in a macro can do the trick).
> 
> That would give much more flexibility when complex parameters must be
> passed.
> 

Why use the exclamation mark at all? It's quite straightforward to parse
shell-style quoting into arguments, and that way users can just cut-n-paste
the commands to verify that they work (assuming they replace the macros,
that is).

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