Hi
Thanks for your response.
The first answer won't work for me as I want to be dynamic about it and
take in a variable of the full path so it could just as easily be 10
directories deep. I'm getting the value for home from a CLI rather than
hand crafting something static.
The significance of the %/* means take the variable's value and right strip
back to the last '/' character. So where I have /first/second/userdir
passed in in the variable $home,
I want to create only /first/second with the mkdir -p command.
Julia
On 14 August 2012 13:54, earthgecko <garypwil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> So as a variable I get passed in $home and it may be for example
>> /first/second/userdirectory where first and second may not exist.
>>
>> So I wanted to do a simple exec command which does the following if I
>> were to do it at the command line:
>>
>> mkdir -p ${home%/*}
>>
>> ...this would make /first/second and I can allow useradd create the
>> userdirectory.
>>
>> BUT....puppet doesn't like me passing that to command.
>>
>> exec { "$home.create":
>> path => '/bin:/usr/bin',
>> command => "mkdir -p '${home%/*}'",
>> }
>>
>> I get Could not match %/*}\"
>>
>>
>>
> So firstly in the context of
>
> command => "mkdir -p '${home%/*}'",
>
> Puppet will try and look up variable:
>
> home%/*
>
> Because it is ${ and double quoted, so puppet is trying to compile the
> command as it is ${ in a double quoted string which puppet understands as a
> variable.
>
> I do not understand the context of the % percent and * wildcard
> references. But is $home was defined as '/first/second', then:
>
> command => "mkdir -p ${home}",
>
> As for passing special characters, different blends of variables and
> special characters should always be tested. Special characters should be
> passed via the exec command context if single quoted and no variables, not
> 100% certain, it always pays to test.
>
>
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