Re: Ambiguosity in iterating over list

[Mark . Burgess]

On  8 Jul, Jacob Lee wrote:
> This is a minor documentation issue, but it did send me down the wrong
> path for a little while.
> 
> The tutorial says that iteration can be used in the following contexts:
>     * in the `to' field of a multiple link action,
>     * in the `from' field of a copy action,
>     * in the directory field of a tidy action,
>     * in the directory field of the files action,
>     * in the ignore action,
>     * in a shell command.
> 
> And the reference manual says:
>     * in the `to' field of a multiple link action,
>     * in the `from' field of a copy action,
>     * in the directory field of a tidy action,
>     * in the directory field of the files action,
>     * in the ignore action.
> 
> It has been my experience that iterating over a list does not work in
> the shellcommands section, contrary to the tutorial's statement. This
> led me to try to do "/sbin/chkconfig --level 2345 $(services_on)" where
> services_on looks like "cups:ssh:cfenvd...(etc)". Creating a separate
> shell script did fix the problem, but it still would be good to update
> the tutorial.
> 
> Thanks
> 


This works for me:

control:

 actionsequence = ( shellcommands )

# Split = ( " " )

test = ( "a:b:c:d" )

shellcommands:

 "/bin/echo GET $(test)"


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