Escaping quotes in strings

[Ron Pantofaro]

I saw in the HCL code that it should support escaping quotes if i use \" , but when i tried it in terraform I got errors for that.

Am I using it wrong?

[Ryan B]

I ran in to the same thing.  If you can use single quoutes it works fine.

-r

[Ron Pantofaro]

I had a very complex command line, that bash escaping it with single quotes turned out to be pretty ugly. The other alternative was to prepare a bash script, but that was an overkill. Both weren't my number one choices, but i went with the first.

It would be great to have the escaping in terraform as well.

[Ryan B]

Actually I prefer the script method over a long complex command.  The only drawbacks are you can't use built in terraform variables in your script.  Also i seem to remember from my testing that you can't use parameters/switches in the script line.  You can only provide the scriptfile to be copied and executed remotely.  Which means if you wanted to run a script you wrote that takes parameters you'll have to do it in 2 steps:   you'll need to first upload it with the file provisioner then use the remote-exec inline provisioner to execute it with parameters/switches.

-r

[Ron Pantofaro]

Oh I just copy my scripts and then run them with remote-exec.

[Mitchell Hashimoto]

Ron,

We just pushed a fix to hashicorp/hcl to fix this. The next version of
Terraform will include this fix.

Best,
Mitchell

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[Ron Pantofaro]

How do I get this fix now? Do i just build terraform's master branch?

[Mitchell Hashimoto]

Ron,

You could, but warning that master is well... unreleased by nature.

Make sure you run a `make updatedeps` as well since the fix was
actually in an upstream dependency.

Best,
Mitchell

[David Cunningham]

Does this bug affect JSON input too?

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[Mitchell Hashimoto]

David,

JSON already was able to escape, I checked!

Best,
Mitchell