Puppet users - May 2013 - Windows Pathnames with spaces in Puppet file directive

I have to change a file in c:\Program Files 
<x86>\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0. I have tried various ways to encapsule 
the Windows path with spaces but to no avail.

 

The following

 

   file { "\"c:\\program files 
<x86>\\MSBuild\\Microsoft.Cpp\\v4.0\\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets\"":

      ensure => present,

      source => 
''puppet:///modules/install_programs/Microsoft.CppCommon.targets'',

    }

 

causes this error:

 

info: Caching catalog for w7entbase.metratech.com

err: Failed to apply catalog: Parameter path failed: File paths must be 
fully qualified, not ''"c:\program files 
<x86>\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets"''
at
/etc/puppetlabs/puppet/modules/test/manifests/init.pp:17

 

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.


Werner

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Hi,

On 17.05.2013 15:28, wernerbahlke wrote:
> I have to change a file in c:\Program Files
> <x86>\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0. I have tried various ways to
encapsule
> the Windows path with spaces but to no avail.
>
> The following
>
>     file { "\"c:\\program files
>
<x86>\\MSBuild\\Microsoft.Cpp\\v4.0\\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets\"":
> err: Failed to apply catalog: Parameter path failed: File paths must be
> fully qualified, not ''"c:\program files
>
<x86>\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets"''
at
> /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/modules/test/manifests/init.pp:17
>
> Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
You do not need to put the extra double quotes inside the string.
> "c:\\Program Files
(x86)\\MSBuild\\Microsoft.Cpp\\v4.0\\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets"

should be completely sufficient. also not that you have posted angle 
brackets around "x86", but usually the directory has normal brackets, 
like I show here.


For more in-depth discussion of filenames under windows in puppet, 
please see the docs at
> http://docs.puppetlabs.com/windows/writing.html#file-paths-on-windows

Regards, David

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