Issue #2193 has been updated by Philip Potter.

I don't understand how this bug is a duplicate of 4884. 4884 is about running 
exec through a shell, with all the quoting and globbing that gets you. This 
ticket is about avoiding the shell completely.

In anycase, I'm happy to work on a patch to provide this functionality, since 
this is something I would really like to see in puppet.
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Bug #2193: Exec's "command" parameter should accept lists in addition to strings
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/2193#change-71122

Author: Deepak Giridharagopal
Status: Duplicate
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: exec
Target version: 
Affected Puppet version: 0.25.0
Keywords: 
Branch: 


Currently, "exec" executes its "command" by passing a string to Kernel#exec, 
which subjects the command to shell-expansion.

There are many use cases where the user knows the exact command they wish to 
execute, and does not want the shell involved at all in the execution (say, for 
example, you're trying to pass an argument to a command that has weird 
characters in it that the shell would normally expand out).

Exec's "command" param should accept a list as input, where the list follows 
the format accepted by Kernel#exec ("If multiple arguments are given, the 
second and subsequent arguments are passed as parameters to command with no 
shell expansion.").

I've attached a patch against 0.25 HEAD (minimally tested)...hopefully that can 
be a starting point for development.


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