Commit 68a94f9c authored by lalyos's avatar lalyos

docs/templates: add note about escaping

If some tries to copy and paste the isotime examples with options into a template, the parser will fail.
parent 8f5664d2
...@@ -121,6 +121,25 @@ isotime = June 7, 7:22:43pm 2014 ...@@ -121,6 +121,25 @@ isotime = June 7, 7:22:43pm 2014
{{isotime "Hour15Year200603"}} = Hour19Year201407 {{isotime "Hour15Year200603"}} = Hour19Year201407
``` ```
Please note that double quote characters need escaping inside of templates:
```javascript
{
"builders": [
{
"type": "amazon-ebs",
"access_key": "...",
"secret_key": "...",
"region": "us-east-1",
"source_ami": "ami-de0d9eb7",
"instance_type": "t1.micro",
"ssh_username": "ubuntu",
"ami_name": "packer {{isotime \"2006-01-02\"}}"
}
]
}
```
## Amazon Specific Functions ## Amazon Specific Functions
Specific to Amazon builders: Specific to Amazon builders:
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