[rrd-users] minor nit in rrdtutorial(1)

[Alex van den Bogaerdt]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick Jones" <rick.jones2 at hp.com>
To: <rrd-users at lists.oetiker.ch>
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 2:15 AM
Subject: [rrd-users] minor nit in rrdtutorial(1)


> I've been reading through rrdtutorial as supplied by 1.4.3-1ubuntu1  and
> have come across a minor nit - the first example in Graphics Magic
> appears to have forgotten to escape the '*' in:
>
>   CDEF:kmh=nonans,3600,*


What do you think is missing?

RRDtool needs to see '*', not '\*' or alike.

Evaluating '*' into something else, and thus the need to escape that 
behaviour in this case, is a property of your shell, not of RRDtool. You 
could write the entire statement like so: 'CDEF:kmh=nonans,3600,*'
and the shell won't expand '*'.

Nevertheless: thanks for carefully reading the tutorial, and keep hunting 
minor nits, as I'm sure there are real ones in it ;)