Re: [Puppet Users] backtick in exec

2010-12-06 Thread Patrick
On Dec 6, 2010, at 3:55 AM, Matt Keating wrote: > How do you do a backtick inside an exec? > > eg: > > exec { "Testworld": > command => "/bin/echo hello `cat /etc/hostname` > /tmp/hello.txt", > } > In general, you can't because that would need to be run by a shell, not by puppet. If you

[Puppet Users] backtick in exec

2010-12-06 Thread Matt Keating
How do you do a backtick inside an exec? eg: exec { "Testworld": command => "/bin/echo hello `cat /etc/hostname` > /tmp/hello.txt", } Thanks, Matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-