On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:06 PM, John T. Guthrie <jguth...@limewire.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > While we can use generate() to get the output of a command into a puppet > manifest, it has limitations. In particular, no subshell is used to run > the command, so you can't use the pipe symbol, "|", to connect two > commands together. So how would one go about getting the output of > "command1 | command2" into a puppet variable in a manifest?
I use wrapper scripts for this. Then have generate() call the wrapper script. #! /bin/bash # script to be used for generate() function set -e set -u command1 | command2 -- Jeff McCune http://www.puppetlabs.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
