Forum: CFEngine Help
Subject: contents of inputs slist
Author: hartikka
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23591,23591#msg-23591
The refrence says the inputs is a list of files.
5.1.4 inputs
Type: slist
Allowed input range: .*
Synopsis: List of additional filenames to parse for promises
Example:
body common control
{
inputs => {
"update.cf",
"library.cf"
};
}
I'd like to put a directory in the list inputs => {
"update.cf",
"library.cf",
"some_dir/"
};
and have every file I put in that dir used as an input.
I anticipate adding a number of files one by one over time to 'some_dir' and
having cfengine parse promises in those files without my having to add each
file explicitly to the inputs list in promises.cf.
The files will all be very similar - clones of each other with minor edits.
Will this work?
Can something like that be done in a different way?
Maybe you have to run a command (ls) and the put its output into 'inputs'.
I guess that would work. Is it bad form?
It would be nice because I don't need to touch promises.cf (where the 'inputs'
list is defined) every time I want to add another file.
Nor do I have to touch a working file to add the behavior I want to add.
Thanks for any guidance.
Ron
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