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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting passing asterisk to a script as variable Post 302180924 by GKnight on Tuesday 1st of April 2008 01:08:56 PM
Old 04-01-2008
Nope, still doesn't work... I tried that one as well. It doesn't expand the file list anymore, but then I have the backslash as part of my variable (see below for an example).

I'm not sure it's the shell that's expanding the variable:

Code:
$ echo "some_command \* options"
some_command \* options
$ echo "some_command * options"
some_command * options

meanwhile, by adding "echo $COMMAND" to my script, I get:

Code:
./test-script "some_command * options"
some_command ...list of files... options

./test-script "some_command \* options"
some_command \* options

I tried running the script from bash and ksh with the same results.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

safe_asterisk

SAFE_ASTERISK(8)					     Linux Programmer's Manual						  SAFE_ASTERISK(8)

NAME

       safe_asterisk -- A wrapper to run the asterisk executable in a loop

SYNOPSIS

       safe_asterisk [ asterisk_params ]

DESCRIPTION

       safe_asterisk is a script that runs asterisk in a loop, which can be useful if you fear asterisk may crash.

       The  script  does  not run in the background like a standard service. Rather, it runs in its own linux virtual console (9, by default).	It
       also uses the option '-c' of asterisk(8) to avoid detaching asterisk from that terminal.

       safe_asterisk also runs asterisk with unlimited core file size, and thus asterisk will dump core in case of a crash.

       To get a "picture" of console 9, from another terminal (e.g: from a remote shell session) you can use:

	 screendump 9

       The init script of the Debian package should be able to run safe_asterisk as the  asterisk  service,  if  so  configured.  See  coments	in
       /etc/default/asterisk

FILES

       /tmp
	      safe_asterisk runs in that directory, rather than in / as usual.

       /tmp/core
	      If core files were generated there, they may be

       /etc/asterisk/startup.d
	      Files  in  this directory will be 'source'd by the safe_asterisk script before it starts Asterisk proper, allowing them to set addi-
	      tional environment variables or run any other steps that are needed for your system.

BUGS

       While showing the output on a console is useful, using screen(1) as the terminal may be better.

       The script does not read configuration from standard location under /etc

       It uses fixed locations under /tmp , and thus may be exposed to a symlink attacks.

SEE ALSO

       asterisk(8), screendump(9)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com> Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this docu-
       ment under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.

Asterisk							  Jun 30th, 2005						  SAFE_ASTERISK(8)
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