[Aide] AIDE Macro Definitions for Windows

[Eric Webster]

Hello,

        I am trying to define some macros for use on Windows systems, where the long paths make the confs look ugly and large. No matter what I try I seem to get a configuration error and I'm wondering why.

Example:
@@define ALLUSERS '/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/All\ Users'

This line always gives me a configuration error, yet if I use the same path in a normal rule it works:
!/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/All\ Users/Application\ Data/SomeVendor/SomeFile\.ext$

My goal was to have that line instead reads:
@@{ALLUSERS}/SomeVendor/SomeFile\.ext$

        I have tried enclosing it in single and double quotes, as well as neither. All give the same error, and it's always on the first macro definition line, and not the line where it is being used. I'm guessing the spaces are what is throwing it off, but I can use them by escaping them in the config file on normal lines.


        While I'm on the subject of Windows, there is something else I've always wondered but never cared enough to send an email about. I've never been able to get rules to work for SQL Server either. Named instances always have a '$' in the path that can't seem to be escaped. I've never been able to make any rule work for a path such as '/c/Program\ Files/Microsoft\ SQL\ Server/MSSQL\$INSTANCENAME'. Any advice there as well?

Regards,
Eric Webster

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