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RACQ_74493's avatar
RACQ_74493
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Feb 28, 2011

Funny behaviour creating monitor in tmsh

Hello,     I was trying to create a bunch of monitors from the tmsh and I am getting odd behaviour.   When I paste the line it gets halfway through pasting it and give an syntax error (Syntax...
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Mark_Crosland_2
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Mar 01, 2011
"?" is a special character in tmsh. It provides context sensitive help based on where you are in the command. To provide csh tmsh parses everything up to the "?", then displays what is valid to enter next. So, you need to escape the "?" if it part of a string that is part of your configuration.