Pete Emerson writes:
> 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
Actually, if all "unless" looks at is the return code of the command I
would probably go with
unless => "test -e MYFILE"
If you use "test" you could also do more sophisticated things like
require the presence of a real file with "-f" and combine other tests for
permissions or ownership.
> 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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