Re: [Fab-user] Bug in multiline append

[Jorge Vargas]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Jeff Forcier <address@hidden> wrote:
> Yea, I've never used append() on more than one line at a time. Could
> easily upgrade it to take a list of lines which would result in
> several internal calls; would that work for you?
>
that won't make it an atomic call. What if one one line works?

> Given that it's simply passing through to shell mechanisms, true
> multiline could get tricky (though honestly I'm not sure why it
> doesn't work right off, I've done that in an actual shell before
> without problems).
>
rly? I ran the command on the shell and it gave me the wrong output,
maybe there is some escaping issue?

> -Jeff
>
> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Jorge Vargas <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> It seems that the following code fails to run on the server.
>>
>> def test_append():
>>    env.home = path('/home/mae')
>>    append('''mae was here
>>    multiline fails
>>    ''', env.home / 'supervisord.conf')
>>
>>
>> This is the debug output
>>  run: /bin/bash -l -c "egrep \"^mae was here
>> sdds
>>    \" \"/home/mae/supervisord.conf\""
>>
>> and the whole file gets printed to out
>>
>> work around use several call to append :)
>>
>>
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