On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:27:40AM -0700, Mark Roggenkamp wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to specify a base_directory and a list of directories (as > variables that may be pulled via hiera later) that will be created under > that base directory. > > base_dir = "/home/base" > bars = ["a", "b", "c"] > > bars will be used to create the folders under base and also part of the > information going into building a template so I don't want to store them as > ["$base_dir/a", "$base_dir/b", "$base_dir/c"]. > > What's the best way to create the bar directories under the base_dir? I'd > love to just give File the bars array and specify the base_dir as a > property. Should I make a prepend function that would prepend base_dir to > each bar and then pass that to File? > > I tried a definition but then to loop I have to generate a single loop-able > structure to call the definition with that contains both bars and base_dir. > I looked at create_resources but that seems like it'd force me to make more > things variables than I wanted and duplicate more than I would like. > > Thanks, > Mark >
If you don't want to use a define here you can use the way how the regsubst function works on arrays: It will apply the substition on all elements and will then return an array with the same length. So this does also work: $base_dir = '/home/base' $bars = ['a', 'b', 'c'] # prefix all bars with base_dir $dirs = regsubst($bars, '(.*)', "${base_dir}/\\1") file { $dirs: ensure => directory, } -Stefan -- 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.