efibootmgr ignores \'s

[Chris Murphy]

On Nov 22, 2013, at 12:27 PM, Rick Stevens <ricks at alldigital.com> wrote:

> On 11/22/2013 11:22 AM, Chris Murphy issued this missive:
>> When anaconda issues the command (according to program.log):
>> 
>> efibootmgr -c -w -L Fedora -d /dev/sda -p 4 -l \EFI\fedora\shim.efi
>> 
>> efbootmgr -v reports the entry as:
>> 
>> Boot0000* Fedora	HD(4,3885800,64000,46559d7b-e280-468b-a298-0dafbc4d1575)File(\EFI\fedora\shim.efi)
>> 
>> If I remove that entry, and then use the identical command as root:
>> 
>> efibootmgr -c -w -L Fedora -d /dev/sda -p 4 -l \EFI\fedora\shim.efi
> 
> Try:
> 
>  efibootmgr -c -w -L Fedora -d /dev/sda -p 4 -l \\EFI\\fedora\\shim.efi
> 
> The reason being that you're still in a shell and "\E" is the same as
> "E". To insert an explicit backslash, you have to double it ("\\").

Ahh OK, and anaconda isn't doing this in a shell so it's unaffected.


Chris Murphy