On 10/28/2010 02:26 PM, Jeff McCune wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:06 PM, John T. Guthrie <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> While we can use generate() to get the output of a command into a puppet
>> manifest, it has limitations. In particular, no subshell is used to run
>> the command, so you can't use the pipe symbol, "|", to connect two
>> commands together. So how would one go about getting the output of
>> "command1 | command2" into a puppet variable in a manifest?
>>
> I use wrapper scripts for this. Then have generate() call the wrapper script.
>
> #! /bin/bash
> # script to be used for generate() function
> set -e
> set -u
> command1 | command2
>
>
I wish I had figured this out earlier. What also seems to work is the
following:
$my_variable = inline_template("<%= %x{command1 | command2} %>")
and this way, there is no need to distribute a file onto the
puppetmaster server. (I should note that I do give full path names to
both commands to be safe.)
Thank you very much for your help.
John Guthrie
[email protected]
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