On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 4:17 PM, John T. Guthrie <jguth...@limewire.com> wrote:
> On 10/28/2010 02:26 PM, Jeff McCune wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
> I wish I had figured this out earlier. What also seems to work is the
> following:
>
> $my_variable = inline_template("<%= %x{command1 | command2} %>")
That's quite slick. Thanks for following up to the list with the
alternative solution to the problem.
--
Jeff McCune
http://www.puppetlabs.com/
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