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

Mike Zupan
Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:40:13 -0000

escape your inner quotes \" \"

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

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Mike Reed <mjohn.reed@gmail.com>
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 "" " :  }
>
> 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 ""
''  " :  }
>
> 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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