Puppet users - Nov 2011 - Puppet Windows: Spaces in file paths a problem?

I thought I read somewhere in Puppet docs/wiki... that it is
"recommended" to avoid spaces in file paths, or some similar verbiage,
but now I cant find it.

Does Puppet have any known issues with spaces in file paths? It would
of course scare Windows admins away... So I hope I am wrong in
thinking I read that.

Thanks a lot,
Mohamed.

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I found where I read what I read... not directly Puppet, but Ruby:

https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/wiki/Troubleshooting:

"If you notice those directories contain spaces, it might be because
you installed Ruby in a folder with spaces (highly not recommended)
or..."

Thanks,
Mohamed.



On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Mohamed Lrhazi <lrhazi@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I thought I read somewhere in Puppet docs/wiki... that it is
> "recommended" to avoid spaces in file paths, or some similar
verbiage,
> but now I cant find it.
>
> Does Puppet have any known issues with spaces in file paths? It would
> of course scare Windows admins away... So I hope I am wrong in
> thinking I read that.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Mohamed.
>
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Hi Mohamed,

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Mohamed Lrhazi <lrhazi@gmail.com> wrote:
> I found where I read what I read... not directly Puppet, but Ruby:
>
> https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/wiki/Troubleshooting:
>
> "If you notice those directories contain spaces, it might be because
> you installed Ruby in a folder with spaces (highly not recommended)
> or..."
>
> Thanks,
> Mohamed.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Mohamed Lrhazi <lrhazi@gmail.com>
wrote:
> > I thought I read somewhere in Puppet docs/wiki... that it is
> > "recommended" to avoid spaces in file paths, or some similar
verbiage,
> > but now I cant find it.
> >
> > Does Puppet have any known issues with spaces in file paths? It would
> > of course scare Windows admins away... So I hope I am wrong in
> > thinking I read that.
> >
> > Thanks a lot,
> > Mohamed.
> >
>
>
I ran into trouble with spaces in file paths when setting RUBYLIB (in batch
files that run our windows rspec tests). I had to convert the paths to
their short names and convert backslashes to forward slashes. Without this,
ruby would not load from files in directories with spaces.

set PWD=%CD%
for %%f in ("%PWD%") do set SHORT_PWD=%%~sf
set RUBYLIB=%RUBYLIB%;%SHORT_PWD%/vendor/facter/lib
set RUBYLIB=%RUBYLIB:\=/%

Josh
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On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Josh Cooper <josh@puppetlabs.com>
wrote:
> Hi Mohamed,
>
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Mohamed Lrhazi <lrhazi@gmail.com>
wrote:
>>
>> I found where I read what I read... not directly Puppet, but Ruby:
>>
>> https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/wiki/Troubleshooting:
>>
>> "If you notice those directories contain spaces, it might be
because
>> you installed Ruby in a folder with spaces (highly not recommended)
>> or..."
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mohamed.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Mohamed Lrhazi
<lrhazi@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I thought I read somewhere in Puppet docs/wiki... that it is
>> > "recommended" to avoid spaces in file paths, or some
similar verbiage,
>> > but now I cant find it.
>> >
>> > Does Puppet have any known issues with spaces in file paths? It
would
>> > of course scare Windows admins away... So I hope I am wrong in
>> > thinking I read that.
>> >
>> > Thanks a lot,
>> > Mohamed.
>> >
>>
>
> I ran into trouble with spaces in file paths when setting RUBYLIB (in batch
> files that run our windows rspec tests). I had to convert the paths to
their
> short names and convert backslashes to forward slashes. Without this, ruby
> would not load from files in directories with spaces.
> set PWD=%CD%
> for %%f in ("%PWD%") do set SHORT_PWD=%%~sf
> set RUBYLIB=%RUBYLIB%;%SHORT_PWD%/vendor/facter/lib
> set RUBYLIB=%RUBYLIB:\=/%
> Josh
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Thanks Josh.

I run into an issue where this Exec would fail if the variable has a
space in it:

command => "$splunk_home\\bin\\splunk.exe start",

but then again that could happen in Unix just as well, not really
Windows specific.

I had to write:

command => "\"$splunk_home\\bin\\splunk.exe\" start",

So I am concluding that from the Puppet end-user perspective, there no
special issue with spaces in path names, at least not as a Windows
specific concern.

Thanks a lot,
Mohamed.

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On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Mohamed Lrhazi <lrhazi@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>
> Thanks Josh.
>
> I run into an issue where this Exec would fail if the variable has a
> space in it:
>
> command => "$splunk_home\\bin\\splunk.exe start",
>
> but then again that could happen in Unix just as well, not really
> Windows specific.
>
> I had to write:
>
> command => "\"$splunk_home\\bin\\splunk.exe\"
start",
>
> So I am concluding that from the Puppet end-user perspective, there no
> special issue with spaces in path names, at least not as a Windows
> specific concern.

Yep, the command needs to be quoted because it is a string with potentially
multiple arguments. I don''t know of any specific Windows issues with
spaces, aside from the RUBYLIB issue mentioned earlier, but do let us know
if you run into something.

Josh

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