Even better. Thank you, sir.
Mark
On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 7:17:34 PM UTC-4, Stefan Schulte wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
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