getting a solid result from an ExecResult...

[Doug Nordwall]

I'm trying to do the following

myVar = (ExecResult (/bin/grep astring ${myFile}) )

Now, this does return the result, save that the grep finds 3 instances, 
and it appears that cfengine ignores the \n's on the end and strings 
all the results together. Fine, I say, to myself , I'll work around it, 
so I do things like

myVar1 = (ExecResult (/bin/grep astring ${myFile} | /usr/bin/head -1) )
myVar2 = (ExecResult (/bin/grep astring ${myFile} | /usr/bin/head - 2 | 
/usr/bin/tail -1) )

Oddly, the second line seems to break cfengine.  None of them appear to 
work correctly.

Has anyone gotten something like this to work?

--Doug Nordwall