Re: [Puppet Users] Double quotes within an exec statement

Christopher Wood
Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:37:12 -0000

On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 01:23:47PM -0700, Mike Reed
wrote:
>    Hello all,
>
>    I''ve been trying to run this exec statement (which to my peril
was
>    initially thought to be something simple):
>
>    exec { "/opt/pbis/bin/config UserDomainPrefix "" "
:  }

Escape the inside double quotes:

$ cat /tmp/2.pp
notice("\"this is quoted\"")
notice("this is not quoted")
$ puppet apply /tmp/2.pp
notice: Scope(Class[main]): "this is quoted"
notice: Scope(Class[main]): this is not quoted

>    After the command is run I''m getting the following error:
>
>    err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER:
>    Syntax error at '''' ''; expected
''}'' at
>    /etc/puppet/modules/powerbroker_install/manifests/init.pp:20 on node
>    sbxwk-blackhole.sbx.leiproductions.com
>
>    I need to run the command with the double quotes as the value of
>    UserDomainPrefix but I''m having a hard time getting this one to
run.  I
>    figured if I changed to the command below, puppet wouldn''t
interpret the
>    double quotes and things would work but I was quite wrong.
>
>    exec { " ''/opt/pbis/bin/config UserDomainPrefix
"" ''  " :  }

Better, if you''re using the literal:

exec { ''/opt/pbis/bin/config UserDomainPrefix "" '':
}

But you''d save yourself the trouble by emplacing a shell script and
running that.

>    Does anybody have any suggestions as to how one might run an exec with
>    double quotes?
>
>    As always, thanks for the help in advance.
>
>    Cheers,
>
>    Mike
>
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