Document how to escape double quotes

[B2G2Kmd]

It seems unclear from the documentation how to escape double quotes within strings. I tried \” but it doesn’t work. \0x22 seems to work, but I wonder if there’s a simpler syntax? I think it could be a good addition to the manual to document how to escape them.

At least one other person has had the same question:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67721997/how-to-escape-double-quotes-in-monit-config-file

[Tildeslash]

Did you try single quotes? Something like:

set mailserver
 smtp.example.com
 port 465
 username [e-mail]
 password 'ex"ample'
 using SSL

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[Dystopian1]

I also wonder how to use arguments with spaces in check program path. None of these works:

'/bin/sh -c "env >/tmp/test"'

"/bin/sh -c \0x22env >/tmp/test\0x22"

"/bin/sh -c \"env >/tmp/test\""

[Tildeslash]

Try “/bin/sh -c 'env >/tmp/test'”

[Dystopian1]

@Tildeslash it works, thank you.