Issue #1679 has been updated by luke.

ohookins wrote:
> Given mpalmer's test cases were run through puppet rather than puppetd my 
> theory is currently that the stripping out of control characters must occur 
> in the puppetmaster or at some point in tranmission to the client, perhaps in 
> the encoding stage into or out of XML.

That should be easy to test, right?
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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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