use escaped semicolon for kernel cmdline whitespace substitution

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/adapt-ks-template b/adapt-ks-template
index 3e3e20a..5dcbee7 100755
--- a/adapt-ks-template
+++ b/adapt-ks-template
@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ Options:
   --sec-ip		IP of secondary interface
   --sec-nm		Netmask of secondary interface
 
+To avoid shell interpretation of whitespace in --krnl-cmdline use escaped
+semicolon:
+  To achieve this:
+    console=tty1 console=ttyS0,115200n8
+  write this:
+    console=tty1\;console=ttyS0,115200n8
 EOF
 }
 
@@ -107,7 +113,7 @@ function parse_commadline {
       shift
       ;;
     --krnl-cmdline)
-      KrnlCmdLine="${2}"
+      KrnlCmdLineOpt="--krnl-cmdline $(echo ${2} | sed -e 's/;/ /g')"
       shift
       ;;
     *)
@@ -203,7 +209,7 @@ sed -ie "s/PRIGATEWAY/${GW}/g" "${TmpDir}/ks-template"
 sed -ie "s/PRINAMESERVERS/${NS}/g" "${TmpDir}/ks-template"
 sed -ie "s/SECIP/${SecIP}/g" "${TmpDir}/ks-template"
 sed -ie "s/SECNETMASK/${SecNM}/g" "${TmpDir}/ks-template"
-sed -ie "s/KRNLCMDLINE/${KrnlCmdLine}/g" "${TmpDir}/ks-template"
+sed -ie "s/KRNLCMDLINE/${KrnlCmdLineOpt}/g" "${TmpDir}/ks-template"
 
 if [ "x${PublishPath}" = "x" ]
 then