iocage exec error when using echo

[PeterSM]

I am trying to update my jails to 11.3-RELEASE by recreating them and I have run into an issue.
The command:

returns the error :
unmatched '''
I know I can do this from withtin the jail but I am wondering what is wrong with this?

This is on FreeNAS11.2-U7

 

[danb35]

If you're wanting to do it by way of iocage exec, I'd probably do iocage exec jailname sh -c (the rest of the command--why did you paste it in as an image?). That's the only way I've been able to get the output redirection to work.

But what does your question have to do with your thread title?

 

[PeterSM]

Thanks Dan
Thread title changed. I must have pasted by mistake! As to the image that is just how it worked apologies.
Now within code tags

Code:

iocage exec <jail> "echo -e 'FreeBSD: { url: \"pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/\${ABI}/latest\" }' > /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf"

I have tried this:

Code:

iocage exec <jail> sh -c  ("echo -e 'FreeBSD: { url: \"pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/\${ABI}/latest\" }' > /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf")

but get the same unmatched ' ' ' error

Any sugestions?

 

[colmconn]

You could also do it, for example, like this:

Code:

iocage exec ${JAIL_NAME} -- mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/
iocage exec ${JAIL_NAME} -- "cat /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf | sed 's,quarterly,latest,' > /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf"

I've also had luck getting the following redirection to work:

Code:

cat <<EOF | iocage exec ${JAIL_NAME} -- "cat - > /tmp/build-mono.sh"
/bin/sh

set -x
# do stuff here
EOF
iocage exec ${JAIL_NAME} -- "chmod +x /tmp/build-mono.sh"
iocage exec ${JAIL_NAME} -- "/tmp/build-mono.sh"

 

[sretalla]

but get the same unmatched ' ' ' error

That looks like there's an unescaped character somewhere breaking the string... you may need to escape the curly braces or colons... not sure.

 

[anmnz]

but get the same unmatched ' ' ' error

Any sugestions?

You are running the command in csh. I would use /bin/sh instead. Your command appears to work fine there. (For interactive use just type sh and away you go.)

BTW I strongly recommend @colmconn's suggested approach, where you construct commands/data and pipe them into iocage exec, rather than putting them on the iocage exec command line where they may need complex escaping.