can cause problems in situations where quotes are expected to be part
of the input.

The solution to this problem is that any quote characters that must be
passed in as data should be *escaped*, by prefixing them with a
backslash. So, if you want a hostname prompt that is xx"yy for some
reason, you will need to escape the single quote by typing

 config> hostname xx\"yy

Only double quotes are affected by this problem.

However, single quotes cannot be escaped. The IOS.sh will read input
until another single quote is seen. Everything within two single quotes
is treated as literal data.

VARIABLES:

IOS.sh supports variables, which can be used in any context. These
variables are set by assignment statements on the command line, or by
parameters passed into ASP functions, and used by prefixing the name
of the variable with a '$' character. However, if your data has an
embedded '$' character, the character must be escaped, using a
backslash, or single quoted. Single quotes will quote everything
within the quotes, and not interpret the '$' character. So, the
options available are:

 router> show isis neighbor \\$abc

or

router> show isis neighbor '$abc'
Note that within single quotes, a sinqle quote that will be used as data
must be escaped using backslash

Additional Characters:


In addition to single quote and $, other characters to watch out for
are <, >, [, ], =, |, +, -, !, backquote, and #. While these
characters are only interpreted in particular contexts, they should be
escaped within data in order to be completely safe.