From e0097dcf21d48ed34ae3be0c6308887478842ae1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thilo Maurer <tmaurer@de.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2018 10:23:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix probing for static IP: proper escaping of backslash

---
 xCAT-probe/lib/perl/probe_utils.pm | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/xCAT-probe/lib/perl/probe_utils.pm b/xCAT-probe/lib/perl/probe_utils.pm
index f8c1b2209..4eccc626a 100644
--- a/xCAT-probe/lib/perl/probe_utils.pm
+++ b/xCAT-probe/lib/perl/probe_utils.pm
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ sub is_static_ip {
         my $output2 = `cat /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-$nic 2>&1 |grep -i BOOTPROTO`;
         $rst = 1 if (($output1 =~ /$ip/) && ($output2 =~ /static/i));
     } elsif ($os =~ /ubuntu/) {
-        my $output = `cat /etc/network/interfaces 2>&1|grep -E "iface\s+$nic"`;
+        my $output = `cat /etc/network/interfaces 2>&1|grep -E "iface\\s+$nic"`;
         $rst = 1 if ($output =~ /static/i);
     }
     return $rst;