How about ending your script with a command that removes itself?
/bin/rm path_to_script
or
/bin/rm $0
Kent
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 5:09 PM, nfwlpw <nfw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So I have a puppet module, that gets a script from files/, runs that
> script, and after it's done, I'd like to remove it.
>
> Unfortunately puppet doesn't seem to like to have 2 different File
> resource aliased to the same, so I can't do
>
> file { "myfile":
> ensure => present,
> source => "puppet:///...",
> }
>
> file { "remove myfile":
> path => "myfile",
> ensure => absent,
> }
>
> Puppet gave the error: err: Failed to apply catalog: Cannot alias
> File[remove myfile]...myfile already declared...
>
> The only work around I've found is using an exec resource. Anyone know
> how to do this without exec?
>
> Thank you
>
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