rundeck does not output spaces/tabs properly

[motilevy]

Seems like rundeck does not behave like the shell when it comes to quotes text/spacing.

For example the following will have the same output:

echo " hi there "
echo ' hi there '

would both output : hi there without the leading white space.

[gschueler]

hi did you close this because it is not an issue? I have not had a chance to look into it

[motilevy]

I closed it because the description was wrong.
The issue I am facing is that I need to quote everything when running commands in the "nodes" job field.

For example : if i'll do echo " hi;there " , you will see the job fails.
If you escape the ";" or single quote the whole string it works, ie:

echo "hi; there" will fail.
'echo "hi; there"' will work.
echo "hi; there" will work

I am assuming this a limitation of the underlying ssh client, and not sure if it can even be attributed to rundeck. One idea a colleague had was to write a wrapper that will "auto escape/quote" the commands before sending them to ssh but I cant see an option to do it.

[gschueler]

what version are you using?

In rundeck 1.5.2 we updated the quoting/escaping. You can see how to properly escape things here: http://rundeck.org/docs/manual/job-workflows.html#quoting-arguments-to-steps

Note: we also are thinking of tweaking that behavior slightly, so that if your literal command is: echo " hi;there " then the quotes you wrote will be included. As it is now, if you need the quotes in the command, you will have to quote them again, e.g.: echo "' hi;there '"

[motilevy]

I am using 1.6.2-1
And note the issue is not just with "jobs" this is actually something we can handle.
The main concern is when inputing a command into the "Enter a shell command" box under "nodes".

[gschueler]

you should be able to double-quote things to have it work as you want.

I filed a new issue to improve the behavior here: #602