On Dec 6, 2010, at 3:55 AM, Matt Keating wrote:
> How do you do a backtick inside an exec?
>
> eg:
>
> exec { "Testworld":
> command => "/bin/echo hello `cat /etc/hostname` > /tmp/hello.txt",
> }
>
In general, you can't because that would need to be run by a shell, not by
puppet. If you want to do something like that:
On client) Explicitly pass that to a shell or run in a shell script
On server) Use the generate() function
If you want to solve that specific case, (which you probably don't) use the
$hostname variable.
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