Yes, of course. That would work fine. :-)
I was getting carried away trying to map this to puppet resources
Thanks
Prateep
On 15 Apr 2011, at 19:16, Mohamed Lrhazi <lrh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would try something like:
>
> file { "/var/tmp/files":
> ensure => "directory",
> ...
> notify => Exec[
>
> exec { "foo":
> command => "echo * | xargs tar xf ",
> cwd => "/var/tmp/files",
> refreshonly => true,
> }
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Prateep <prat...@anicca.net> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Newbie question here...
>>
>> I'm trying to figure out how to execute a command for every file in a
>> directory.
>>
>> For example, I recursively copy a bunch of tar files and then I want
>> to run a command against them
>>
>> My understanding is that the file resource will execute first, copying
>> all of the files. After that the exec resource will occur. Is that
>> right? If so, how do I run an exec for every file?
>>
>> Ideally, I want to do something like this, but to have the exec occur
>> for every individual file:
>>
>> file { "/var/tmp/files":
>> ensure => "directory",
>> recurse => true,
>> purge => true,
>> backup => false,
>> mode => "755",
>> source => "puppet:///files",
>> }
>>
>> exec { "foo":
>> command => "tar xf FILENAME",
>> cwd => "/var/tmp/files",
>> subscribe => File["/var/tmp/files"],
>>
>> }
>>
>>
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