efibootmgr ignores \'s

[Rick Stevens]

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 ("\\").
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