Issue #7752 has been updated by Luc Suryo.
FYI This was taking from http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Simple_Text_Patterns Would be nice if the example it fixed ;) for comment : command => "sed -i -e'/${line}/s/^\\(.\\+\\)$/#\\1/' '${file}'", for uncomment: command => "sed -i -e'/${line}/s/^#\\+//' '${file}'", case closed... thanks! ---------------------------------------- Bug #7752: Unrecognised escape sequence https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/7752 Author: Luc Suryo Status: Investigating Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: cron Target version: Affected Puppet version: 2.6.3 Keywords: Branch: This happend for cron as well for exec ! consider the followings cron { "fake_test" : command => "find /data -type f -name \*log -exec ls -l {} \; > /dev/null 2>&1", user => "root", hour => "0", minute => "0", ensure => "present", } AND define fly::comment ( $file, $line ) { Exec { logoutput => "on_failure", path => [ "/bin", "/usr/bin", "/sbin", "/usr/sbin", "/usr/local/bin", "/usr/local/sbin" ], } exec { "comment-$name" : command => "sed -i -e'/${line}/s/^\ (.\+\)$/#\1/' '${file}'", onlyif => "test `grep '${line}' '${file}' | grep -v '^#' | wc -l` -ne 0", user => "root", refreshonly => "false", } } message in the log file : for cron: Jun 1 18:06:08 noc01 puppet-master[1993]: Unrecognised escape sequence '\;' in file /data/lib/puppet/fly/modules/fly-cron/manifests/fly-cron::noc.pp at line 344 for exec: Jun 1 18:06:07 noc01 puppet-master[1993]: Unrecognised escape sequence '\ ' in file /data/lib/puppet/modules/fly/manifests/fly::comment.pp at line 35 Jun 1 18:06:07 noc01 puppet-master[1993]: Unrecognised escape sequence '\+' in file /data/lib/puppet/modules/fly/manifests/fly::comment.pp at line 35 Jun 1 18:06:07 noc01 puppet-master[1993]: Unrecognised escape sequence '\)' in file /data/lib/puppet/modules/fly/manifests/fly::comment.pp at line 35 Jun 1 18:06:07 noc01 puppet-master[1993]: Unrecognised escape sequence '\1' in file /data/lib/puppet/modules/fly/manifests/fly::comment.pp at line 35 Jun 1 18:06:07 noc01 puppet-master[1993]: Unrecognised escape sequence '\+' in file /data/lib/puppet/modules/fly/manifests/fly::uncomment.pp at line 35 and yet the crontab is cerated and is correct and the exec is executed correctly too! ENV : ubuntu on EC2 / Passenger 3.0;7 / Nginx 1.0.0 / Rack 1.0.3 Thanks -ls -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.
