Re: Q: defining classes from shell command output

[John Wieczorek]

Thanks to all who responded - I've found a workaround to the problem...

cfengine interprets the PIPE (and everything after) as arguments to
isainfo.

> I'm trying to define a class using the out put of a shell command eg:
> control:
>          bits = ( "exec /usr/bin/isainfo -kv | cut -b1-2" )
>          addclasses  =  ( "$(bits)" )
 
If I feed the whole statement to sh  I get what I expected

        bits = ( "exec /bin/sh -c `/usr/bin/isainfo -kv | cut -b1-2`" ) 
        addclasses  =  ( "$(bits)" )