-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John Florian wrote: > Anyone know of how I can do in puppet the equivalent of this from the > land of shell scripting? > > foo=$(cat /tmp/bar) > > or if you prefer > > foo=`cat /tmp/bar`
On the master you can use the generate function to populate a variable value. http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/FunctionReference#generate Otherwise you should use a fact. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430219122/) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590599780/) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590596099/) * Hardening Linux (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590594444/) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJ+4W09hTGvAxC30ARAv05AJ9jQZksz+/bX5NBsGkh18+jom8ukQCdF0cr GAdPLI/EG9JUgndFnbnZI/I= =zcAM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
