On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 08:27:13AM -0400, imnozi@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Ah. Does iptables now auto-insert a space between the prefix and the message? 1.6.0 didn't, which is why I added those spaces years ago. > > But then, how does iptables-translate grouse about the '"' being a bad arg if the shell strips the quotes out? It's the other way round: You're capturing the quotes in $a so the shell will pass them to the command after expanding the variable reference. [...] > > > [root@kvm64-62 sbin]# iptables-save|grep -- "^-.*LOG" |while read a; do echo -e "\n$a"; iptables-translate $a;done Your test-script is simply broken. Instead of 'iptables-translate $a', call 'eval "iptables-translate $a"' and everything's fine. You did not try calling iptables-translate with given parameters manually, did you? Please keep in mind that the first step after writing a test script is to debug the test script itself. Cheers, Phil
