Matthew,
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:48:14 -0500 From: Matthew Miller mattdm@fedoraproject.org To: phil@pricom.com.au, Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: Bash / Escaping quotes is driving me crazy . . Message-ID: 20160225164814.GA21990@mattdm.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 02:18:45PM +1100, Philip Rhoades wrote:
OK, that all makes sense but there is a further issue - I was trying to keep it simple - this whole line is inside a Ruby "system" command ie:
Well that's pretty frightening. :)
Have you considered using ruby's Net::SSH instead?
That might be a more sensible option I admit . . for me, I am always getting stuff done in Bash scripts and then when it starts getting too hard or clumsy, switching to Ruby - and I guess I am lazy and I keep re-using what has already been done and is working . .
Regards,
Phil.