Assaf, Thank you for your help. Just wanted to add. Escaping with '\' did not work but it work when I use '$'. Thanks <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Assaf Flatto <<a href="mailto:nagios@flatto.net">nagios@flatto.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">shadih rahman wrote: > Asif, > Thanks for your response. I am attaching the actual plugin in this > email. However the actual regular expression line is below. > > if ($_=~ qr/$xgrep/mo){ > $returnstring= "We have found $xgrep in $opfile"; > > > nrpe definition is something like this > > command[check_filecontent_x64]=/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_filetest > -n $ARG1$ -G $ARG2$ -c $ARG3$ > > > service definition is something like this > > check_nrpe -H whatever -c check_filecontent_x64 -a filename ".*foo*" 1 </div>if you want to pass the quotation marks to the test you will need to escape them . like this [ -a filename \"\.\*foo\*\" 1 ] so nrpe will pass them as part of the string to the daemon on the target machine. Assaf -- <div><div></div><div class="h5">Never,Ever Cut A Deal With a Dragon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. <a href="http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev" target="_blank">http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users" target="_blank">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Cordially, Shadhin Rahman