Puppet users - Mar 2013 - multi-line content= construct for puppet resource file command

Hello all,

How does one enter multi-line content using ''puppet resource file
...''
at the command line?

For example, I am trying to create a file called /tmp/hw.txt with two
lines of content:

$ cat /tmp/hw.txt
hello
world

This does not work:

$ puppet resource file hello_world \
  path=/tmp/hw.txt \
  ensure=file \
  content="hello\nworld\n"

This does, but use "puppet apply" :

cat <<"eof" | puppet apply
file { "hello_world":
  path => "/tmp/hw.txt",
  ensure => "file",
  content => "hello\nworld\n",
}
eof

Does anyone have any pointers on how to construct the content= line so
that I can get two lines of text?

Regards,
- Robert

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Hi,

at first glance, it doesn''t seem to be possible.

I had never thought of using puppet resource in this way. Is there a
reason why you prefer it over puppet apply?

On 03/06/2013 07:49 AM, Robert Citek wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> How does one enter multi-line content using ''puppet resource file
...''
> at the command line?
> 
> For example, I am trying to create a file called /tmp/hw.txt with two
> lines of content:
> 
> $ cat /tmp/hw.txt
> hello
> world
> 
> This does not work:
> 
> $ puppet resource file hello_world \
>   path=/tmp/hw.txt \
>   ensure=file \
>   content="hello\nworld\n"
> 
> This does, but use "puppet apply" :
> 
> cat <<"eof" | puppet apply
> file { "hello_world":
>   path => "/tmp/hw.txt",
>   ensure => "file",
>   content => "hello\nworld\n",
> }
> eof
> 
> Does anyone have any pointers on how to construct the content= line so
> that I can get two lines of text?
> 
> Regards,
> - Robert
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Just preference and consistency.  We''ve been using puppet as a
substitute for shell commands that use the ''command [options]
arguments ... '' pattern and  ''puppet resource ...''
matches that
pattern nicely.  But if by using here-documents we can match the
pattern pretty closely and we gain the additional functionality, we''ll
go that way.

Using ''puppet apply'' with a here-document ....

puppet apply <<"eof"
file { "hello_world":
  path => "/tmp/hw.txt",
  ensure => "file",
  content => "hello\nworld\n",
}
eof

... looks pretty close to using arguments to ''puppet resource''
...

$ puppet resource \
  file hello_world \
  path=/tmp/hw.txt \
  ensure=file \
  content="hello\nworld\n"

... but actually works.  :)

Regards,
- Robert

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Felix Frank
<felix.frank@alumni.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> at first glance, it doesn''t seem to be possible.
>
> I had never thought of using puppet resource in this way. Is there a
> reason why you prefer it over puppet apply?
>
> On 03/06/2013 07:49 AM, Robert Citek wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> How does one enter multi-line content using ''puppet resource
file ...''
>> at the command line?
>>
>> For example, I am trying to create a file called /tmp/hw.txt with two
>> lines of content:
>>
>> $ cat /tmp/hw.txt
>> hello
>> world
>>
>> This does not work:
>>
>> $ puppet resource file hello_world \
>>   path=/tmp/hw.txt \
>>   ensure=file \
>>   content="hello\nworld\n"
>>
>> This does, but use "puppet apply" :
>>
>> cat <<"eof" | puppet apply
>> file { "hello_world":
>>   path => "/tmp/hw.txt",
>>   ensure => "file",
>>   content => "hello\nworld\n",
>> }
>> eof
>>
>> Does anyone have any pointers on how to construct the content= line so
>> that I can get two lines of text?
>>
>> Regards,
>> - Robert
>
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