Issue #1679 has been reported by ohookins.
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Bug #1679: Control characters can't be used within a file resource
http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/show/1679
Author: ohookins
Status: Unreviewed
Priority: Normal
Assigned to:
Category:
Target version:
Complexity: Unknown
Affected version: 0.24.5
Keywords:
Our use case is thus: occasionally users will copy perl scripts over to our
Linux machines from a Windows machine, unchanged, resulting in carriage return
characters on the end of the line. Therefore the shebang might end up looking
like this:
<pre>
#!/usr/bin/perl^M
</pre>
where the ^M is a carriage return character (you can get this in Vi by typing
^V^M). To alleviate problems with these scripts we usually create a few links:
/usr/bin/perl^M -> /usr/bin/perl
/usr/local/bin/perl^M -> /usr/bin/perl
etc.
If you attempt to put the control character ^M into the manifest to create the
link, it is ignored (or stripped out) by puppet and we end up over-writing
/usr/bin/perl with an invalid link to itself.
<pre>
file { "/usr/bin/perl^M":
ensure => "/usr/bin/perl";
}
</pre>
For the moment I've had to resort to execs to get the job done (which
unfortunately still messes with puppet's debug output due to the ^M) but it
would be nice if puppet could handle the control character natively.
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