Trouble quoting arguments to codep commands

[tilgovi]

With a command like codep <script with flags> <other script> I could not figure out how to get things to behave correctly when the flags required quoting.

For instance, with codep "consul-template -template '/etc/nginx/conf.d/services.conf.ctmpl:/etc/nginx/conf.d/services.conf:nginx -s reload'" I could not for the life of me figure out the quoting that would work correctly. Part of the issue might be that the ENTRYPOINT from Dockerfile makes this even more complicated, but I haven't tried codep directly yet.

I ended up just using an HCL file so I wouldn't need to quote the spaces around "nginx -s reload".

[progrium]

So that example with consul-template doesn't work? Yes, the entrypoint Dockerfile syntax complicates things, but it should too much. That said, that's actually why I sometimes prefer the ENV approach for defining entrykit commands.

[tilgovi]

I couldn't manage any working combination of double, single, or escaped quotes of either type when I tried to do that in an ENTRYPOINT.

It's fine. For now I'm just pointing to an HCL file instead.

I'll test codep directly to see whether it handles things correctly on its own and close this or offer a documentation PR if that helps. Just wanted to dump current state from my brain.

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016, 11:19 Jeff Lindsay [email protected] wrote:

So that example with consul-template doesn't work? Yes, the entrypoint Dockerfile syntax complicates things, but it should too much. That said, that's actually why I sometimes prefer the ENV approach for defining entrykit commands.

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