I'd deploy a wee script that does what you are trying to handle in the command
string, and just call that instead.
On 21 Nov 2011, at 06:30, Douglas Garstang wrote:
> Grrr. I have the exec{} below in my puppet module. How do I escape the
> \ characters? I've tried every possible combination I can think of.
> I've used one, I've used two, and I've used THREE \.
>
> exec {
> 'oracle-extract-part':
> command => "/usr/bin/printf
> \"n\np\n2\n2091\n+16384M\nw\n\" | /sbin/fdisk /dev/xvdj",
> unless => "/bin/cat /proc/partitions | /bin/grep
> ${orcl_ephm_device}2";
> }
>
> With three \, it ends up looking like this in the log:
>
> Nov 21 01:27:45 dev-c3-app-15 puppet-agent[3091]:
> (/Stage[main]/Oracle::Server11g/Exec[oracle-swap-part]/returns) change
> from notrun to 0 failed: /usr/bin/printf
> \"n\#012p\#0121\#0121\#012+32768M\#012t\#01282\#012w\#012\" |
> /sbin/fdisk /dev/xvdj returned 1 instead of one of [0] at
> /etc/puppet/devmp/modules/oracle/manifests/server11g.pp:136
>
> Now... that's obviously not right. How do I escape \ symbols?
>
> Doug.
>
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