Re: [Fab-user] Problems escaping double and single quotes within run()

[Gilgamezh]

Hi! maybe you can cat de file and then do a local parse with python. 
something like this:

pidginConfg = run('cat /path/to/file.conf')

now you have the file in pidginConfig and you can parse it. --> 
http://docs.python.org/2/library/xml.etree.elementtree.html#parsing-xml

Regards!!

Nicolás
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El 2013-01-16 17:29, Tim O'Guin escribió:
> Hi, all.
>
> First off, I'm new to Fabric and Python, so I apologize if this is
> something obvious that I'm doing wrong.
>
> I'm writing a program to audit an XML config file on remote hosts.
> Specifically, I'm auditing the configuration file for Pidgin to 
> ensure
> that chat logging is disabled. I'm attempting to use grep to find the
> relevant lines and sed to pull out the True/False bool.
>
> Here are the two relevant lines of code:
>
> imbool = sudo("grep '<pref name=\'log_ims\' type=\'bool\'
> value=\'[0|1]\'/>' " + configfile + " | sed 's/.*
> value=\'\([01]\)\'.*/\1/'")
> chatbool = sudo("grep '<pref name=\'log_chats\' type=\'bool\'
> value=\'[0|1]\'/>' " + configfile + " | sed 's/.*
> value=\'\([01]\)\'.*/\1/'")
>
> I've gone around and around trying to escape quotes in different 
> ways,
> but none of them are working. I was told in the IRC channel that
> escaping quotes is problematic.
>
> I figured I'd make sure I'm not just missing something obvious before
> I figure out the Python way to do it (i.e., without grep and sed).
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Tim O'Guin
>
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