On 11/10/2010 05:16 PM, Gabriel Filion wrote:
> On 11/10/2010 10:18 AM, luke.bigum wrote:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> When declaring multiple resources at once with an array like this:
>>
>> file { [ "foo", "bar" ]: ... }
>>
>> Is there a way to access the current array element so as to pass this
>> value as a parameter? So the "foo" resource has a parameter value
>> "foo" and "bar" with a parameter value "bar"?
> 
> 
> I think what you want is to use $name. it corresponds to the resource
> name that is currently being worked on.
> 
> file { [ "foo", "bar" ]: path => "/blah/${name}.txt", ... }
> 

Close, but no cigar.

You need to wrap the file in a define like:

define my_file() {
  file { "$name":
    owner => $name,
    mode  => 640,
  }
}

Then you can just use

$array = [ ... ]
my_file { $array: }

Regards,
Felix

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