Re: getting a solid result from an ExecResult...

[Mark . Burgess]

For security reasons, cfengine doesn't use a shell here by
default, that's why Adrian's suggestion worked.

M


On  5 Sep, Doug Nordwall wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
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