On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:00:32AM -0400, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote:
>Forum: Cfengine Help
>Subject: Re: Cfengine Help: file_select in std lib and anonymous list
>Author: neilhwatson
>Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,21918,21919#msg-21919
>
>Why define a
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: Cfengine Help: file_select in std lib and anonymous list
Author: jeromebaum
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,21918,21920#msg-21920
The name is a kind of documentation.
Plus, it's less work than finding out how to use an anonymous
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: Cfengine Help: file_select in std lib and anonymous list
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,21918,21919#msg-21919
Why define a variable that will only be used once?
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On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 15:51, wrote:
> 'names' has to be a list. Is there anyway to pass an anonymous list stead?
> For example
> # normal way
> file_select => by_name( "@{pca_etc_files}"),
>
> # anonymous way
> file_select => by_name( { "patch.*", "pca.*" } ),
>
What's the use case? i.e. do
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: file_select in std lib and anonymous list
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,21917,21917#msg-21917
Consider this from the std lib
body file_select by_name(names)
{
leaf_name => { @(names)};
file_result => "leaf_name";
}
'names'
