Issue #1679 has been updated by mpalmer.

I can't reproduce the reported problems in 0.24.5.

With the following manifest:

<pre>
file { "/tmp/x^M":
  ensure => "/usr/bin/perl";
}
</pre>

(Where @^M@ is produced with ^V^M in vi)

I get a file in /tmp named "x^M" (or "x?" depending on whether you're viewing 
it with tab completion or @ls@) that points to /usr/bin/perl.  I've also tested 
"self-referential" links, like so:

<pre>
file { "/tmp/x^M":
  ensure => "/tmp/x";
}
</pre>

And I still don't get any problems.

For the tab problem, I tried this:

<pre>
file { "/tmp/x":
  content => "     xyzzy";
}
</pre>

(Where the whitespace in the quotes is a tab, not spaces) I get a file that is 
6 bytes in size, containing a tab and five alpha characters.
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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: Accepted
Priority: Normal
Assigned to: community
Category: file
Target version: unplanned
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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