If you don't care about the contents of the file, just whether it's
there or not:
unless => "/usr/bin/file MYFILE"
or
unless => "/usr/bin/stat MYFILE"
or
unless => "/bin/ls MYFILE"
should all be pretty lightweight
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Patrick <kc7...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mar 4, 2010, at 7:29 AM, Allan Marcus wrote:
>
>> A file that this command creates. If this
>> parameter is provided, then the command will only be run
>> if the specified file does not exist::
>>
>> exec { \"tar xf /my/tar/file.tar\":
>> cwd => \"/var/tmp\",
>> creates => \"/var/tmp/myfile\",
>> path => [\"/usr/bin\", \"/usr/sbin\"]
>> }
>>
>>
>> Is there a way to set the content of this file (/var/tmp/myfile) using some
>> additional parameter in the above syntax?
>
> This isn't the "right" way to do it, and you may have performance issues
> depending on the size of the file, but you can always combine grep with
> unless.
>
> If you want to re-extract the file if the file doesn't contain "testString"
> this should work.
>
> exec { "tar xf /my/tar/file.tar":
> cwd => "/var/tmp",
> creates => "/var/tmp/myfile",
> path => ["/usr/bin", "/usr/sbin"],
> unless => "grep testString myfile",
> }
>
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