Hi, I'm trying to retrieve a configuration value from a local file in a custom fact. I'm having some problems with this though. I hope, someone can point me to the right direction.
My configuration file looks something like this: cat /tmp/example.properties my.application.wsdl.url=http://myserver.mydomain.de:8080/path/to/ application?wsdl My custom fact would have a line like this: myserver=%x{cat /tmp/example.properties| sed -n "s| my.application.*http://\(.*\):.*|\1|p" }.chomp Unfortunatley this doesn't work. The custom fact returns an undefined variable. It seems to me, that the cause is a combination of the use of parenthesis and/or backslashes and the %x operator, because irb(main):001:0> s = system 'cat /tmp/example.properties | sed -n "s| my.application.*http://\(.*\):.*|\1|p"' myserver.mydomain.de => true is working. irb(main):006:0> s = %x[ cat /tmp/example.properties | sed -n "s| application|\1|p" ] => "my.\001.wsdl.url=http://myserver.mydomain.de:8080/path/to/ application?wsdl\n" is working (at least I get a result). irb(main):004:0> s = %x[ cat /tmp/example.properties | sed -n "s| my.application.*http://\(.*\):.*|\1|p" ] => "" is not working I tried removing and doubling the backslashes to no avail. Does someone have an idea, what I'm doing wrong or what other approach would be possible? Thanks in advance, Daniela -- 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.
