As most Splunkers know,
splunk cmd btool --app=fooapp foofile list
will print out the combined configuration from the file foofile.conf in the app fooapp. The problem is that some keys have values with carriage-returns in them. These are represented in the config file with a '\' at the end. For example:
[foostanza]
search = blah blah blah \
more blah blah blah \
more=inside_search ... blah... \
done
description = foo description
This config file has two keys in the foostanza stanza: search and description. btool will print out the stanza as follows:
search = blah blah blah
more blah blah blah
more=inside_search ... blah...
done
description = foo description
This makes it look like there are three keys with junk in between them: search, more and description.
If there was a way to preserve the original '\' characters at the ends of lines, I could just do the following:
splunk cmd btool --app=fooapp foofile list >foofile_combined.conf
This would allow me to use foofile_combined.conf as the new version of foofile.conf. Unfortunately, I have to manually (ugggh) replace the end-of-line backslashes.
Does anyone have a way around this, or should I file an ER?
