Re: Using nawk with cfengine

[Brendan Strejcek]

The problem seems to be in how cfagent parses the parentheses.

$ cat ExecResult.cf
#!/usr/local/sbin/cfagent -qKf
control: actionsequence = ( shellcommands )
var = ( ExecResult(/usr/bin/awk '/search/ { print $2 }' /etc/resolv.conf) )
shellcommands: "/bin/echo ${var}"
$ ./ExecResult.cf  
cfengine::/bin/echo cs.uc: cs.uchicago.edu
$ 

If you don't really need it upper case, the above works. If you change
that to { print toupper($2) }, cfagent pukes.

Summary: don't use parentheses within ExecResult arguments.

Example run on OpenBSD 3.5 with cfengine 2.1.6.