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Diffstat (limited to 'src/utils/vyos-config-to-commands')
| -rwxr-xr-x | src/utils/vyos-config-to-commands | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/utils/vyos-config-to-commands b/src/utils/vyos-config-to-commands index 8b50f7c5d..7147bc5ff 100755 --- a/src/utils/vyos-config-to-commands +++ b/src/utils/vyos-config-to-commands @@ -19,6 +19,14 @@ else: except OSError as e: print("Could not read config file {0}: {1}".format(file_name, e), file=sys.stderr) +# This script is usually called with the output of "cli-shell-api showCfg", which does not +# escape backslashes. "ConfigTree()" expects escaped backslashes when parsing a config +# string (and also prints them itself). Therefore this script would fail. +# Manually escape backslashes here to handle backslashes in any configuration strings +# properly. The alternative would be to modify the output of "cli-shell-api showCfg", +# but that may be break other things who rely on that specific output. +config_string = config_string.replace("\\", "\\\\") + try: config = ConfigTree(config_string) commands = config.to_commands() |