Commands with backslashes are making troubles

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I'm using Ubuntu 13.04 dev with upstart 1.6.1-1ubuntu1. For example an upstart script with this command isn't executed correctly:

exec find / ! -size 0 -regex '.*\.sqlite3?$' -type f -exec sqlite3 {} VACUUM \;

Copying the line into a terminal is working fine. A workaround to get this command working with upstart is to use the script tags around the command.

[James Hunt (jamesodhunt)]

Thanks for reporting. This looks like a subtle parsing issue.

A work-around is to put the entire command within a script stanza like this:

script
exec find / ! -size 0 -regex '.*\.sqlite3?$' -type f -exec sqlite3 {} VACUUM \;
end script